Bingzhou's historical status in the Han Dynasty has never been too high. The biggest feature of Bingzhou is its vast territory and sparse population.
Even among the nine counties and ninety-eight towns in the whole state, there are only one county in Shuofang County and six county towns. In the census before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were only 1,987 households and 7,843 households.
Celebrity population.
The total population of the entire state is only 700,000. The reason is that during the Han Dynasty, most of the state was grassland, which was equivalent to today's Inner Mongolia area in later generations.
In addition, during the reign of Emperor Huan, the Xianbei hero Tan Shihuai repeatedly invaded, and a large area had been occupied by Xianbei. Bingzhou was now under the rule of the Han Dynasty, with only Shangdang and Taiyuan counties.
However, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and multiple Xianbei invasions in central China, even the two counties of Shangdang and Taiyuan were in ruins. Decades of war had almost destroyed everything in Bingzhou. Coupled with drought, famine and foreign invasions,
There are not even one living person left in Bingzhou.
Lu Bu led his soldiers and horses through Shangdang. The villages and counties along the way were in dilapidated condition. The once vast farmland was deserted into grassland. The prosperous land that used to be densely populated and with roads extending in all directions has long since disappeared, leaving only ruins.
Wu'an, Fukouxing, it was about noon. The cavalry had been running quickly for several hours and crossed the Taihang Mountains. The horses and soldiers were already tired, so Lu Bu had to order the whole team to rest for a while.
"Fengxian, if we go to Jizhou, will Wang Fen agree to take us in?"
Li Su followed Lu Bu to a small hillside. Surrounded by endless mountains, there was a small river trickling in the distance. The soldiers pulled the horses to the river one after another, and put the horses on the downstream bank to rest.
Draw water from upstream.
Lu Bu looked into the distance. The location here was actually very close to Longfeng Mountain where Chen Mu defeated Xu Rong. It was in the southwest of Wu'an County. It was later called Cishan Town, and to the east was Xiangtang Mountain.
After he escaped from Chang'an, he took more than a thousand Bingzhou cavalry remnants with him. He did not dare to go to Luoyang via the Qinling Ancient Road, so he could only enter Bingzhou Shangdang County from Hedong County.
Then from the Hukou Guguan Ancient Road in Shangdang, enter Shexian County in Jizhou, pass through Fukouxing, one of the Taibaxings, and arrive in Wu'an County.
Although we passed through the hometown of Bingzhou along the way, it was sparsely populated and desolate. We even occasionally saw Xianbei people on the Shangdang border in the north. Everything showed that Bingzhou was no longer suitable to be a habitat. Lu Bu could only go east.
Go to Jizhou to join Wang Fen.
But Jizhou may not accept him because of its strong soldiers and horses.
So after hearing Li Su's words, Lu Bu's frown deepened.
His subordinate Cheng Lian said: "When Wang Fen established the emperor without permission, the imperial court issued an edict announcing his crimes and ordered Liu Bei to attack him. Wang Fen must have a tense relationship with Liu Bei at this time, and he needed a general to lead his army. If the general can
With Wang Fen's reuse, we may be able to gain a piece of land in Jizhou and develop ourselves."
"Um."
Lu Bu actually thought the same thing in his heart. He stopped on a hillside and sighed: "How can a man fall into such a situation when he is so proud of himself between heaven and earth? I must cheer up and build up a meritorious career so that I can make great contributions to the world."
No one in the world dares to underestimate me anymore."
As he was talking, suddenly a Pegasus rode in front of him and said loudly: "General, general!"
"It's Hou Cheng."
Cheng Lian recognized that it was the messenger he sent to report to Wu'an County, hoping that the magistrate of Wu'an would express to Wang Fen that Lu Bu wanted to join him.
Now under Lu Bu's command, Li Su is the captain of the school, and Cheng Lian and Wei Yue are the army commanders.
Others Song Xian, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng, Cao Xing, Hao Meng and others are still middle-level officers at various levels such as Qujunhou, Bijiang, and partial generals. Hou Cheng is currently Cheng Lian's subordinate.
I saw Hou Cheng approaching, dismounted from his horse with a beautiful move, knelt down on one knee and cupped his hands and said: "General!"
"Why are you back so soon? Have you seen Wu Anling?"
Lu Bu asked angrily.
He had just sent Hou Cheng not long ago, and it only took time to go back and forth from Wu'an. He came back almost as soon as he went there. How could the report be so fast?
Hou Cheng said: "My subordinates did not see Wu Anling, because when they went down, they saw someone attacking the city."
"Siege the city?"
Lu Bu glanced at Li Sucheng, Lian Wei and Yue, and asked thoughtfully: "Have you seen clearly who is attacking the city?"
Hou Cheng replied: "It's the Yellow Turban Army."
Yellow Turban Army?
Several people were confused.
How many years ago did this happen? The Yellow Turban Army was destroyed seven or eight years ago. Can you still see it in Jizhou now?
"It should be the Montenegrin Army."
Li Su suddenly remembered something and said: "The Black Mountain Army is the former Yellow Turban of Jizhou. Now it hides in the Five Elements Mountains and occupies some towns at the foot of the mountain. It is called the Black Mountain Army and often plunders Jizhou."
"General, this is an opportunity."
Wei Yue immediately said: "If we can help Wu'an repel the Black Mountain Army, Wang Fen will definitely realize our role and accept us. And even if he cannot accept us, we helped him repel the Black Mountain Army and asked for some food and grass and garrison troops.
Wu An, help him resist the Black Mountain Army, this request is not too much at all."
"Um."
Lu Bu nodded in agreement and immediately said: "Okay, order the whole army to assemble and go to Wu'an immediately. The soldiers happen to be still hungry. After this battle, let the Wu'an order prepare food and grass for us to make a living."
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"only!"
Li Sucheng, Lian Weiyue and others took the order and left.
The soldiers set out at the time when the cock crows for the first time, and many of them had empty stomachs by now. Upon hearing Lu Bu's order, the knights became happy and mounted their horses one after another, shouting.
Following the order, the cavalry set off with a roar. Thousands of horses' hooves beat on the ground, making a sound like rolling thunder as they quickly headed north.
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Two days later, Yecheng, Jizhou.
In the State Shepherd's Mansion, Wang Fen was sitting in the backyard hall feeling a little uneasy. His life had not been easy recently.
Because of his unauthorized establishment of a false emperor, Wang Fen offended some families loyal to the Han Dynasty, so many Jizhou families left him and chose to move to Luoyang or Qingzhou.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, no one from the Yingchuan faction has left, such as Xun He, Xun You, Chen Yi, Xiang Kai, Zhou Jing, Xin Ping, Xun Chen, Guo Tu, Shen Pei,
Geng Wu, Min Chun, Li Li, Liu Hui and others expressed their support for him.
Among them, Xun Shuang died of illness this year, but as one of the only remaining Eight Dragons of the Xun family, he did not object because they were all party members.
The party members were not die-hard loyalists of the emperor, but die-hard loyalists of the Han Dynasty. After all, they had suffered from the ban of the party several times by Emperor Huan and Emperor Kang. To the emperor, they didn't care who they were. They only cared that the Han Dynasty was still there.
This is the same as Xun Yu's early support for Cao Cao.
Therefore, after the false emperor was established, the hearts of some die-hard fans of the Han Dynasty were gathered together. A group of people left, and another group came. They were basically the backbone of the original party members, like Wang Fenxunyu.
They are Han Dynasty fans, not emperor fans.
So why is it said that he is not having a good life?
Or the matter of establishing a false emperor.
After all, Han Dynasty fans are basically party members. Party members have been persecuted by the last two emperors, which led them to end up in the Han Dynasty instead of the emperor.
But in the Han Dynasty, party members were only a minority, and most people still respected the imperial court as orthodox and denounced the Emperor of Jizhou as a false emperor.
This caused Wang Fen to lose the big for the small, and won the hearts of the party members, but lost the hearts of the world.
For a time, Jizhou was in a state of turmoil, with enemies on all sides.
There is Gongsun Zan in the north, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and Bao Xin in the south. Although Jizhou has strong soldiers and horses, plenty of food and grass, and many soldiers and horses, there are very few capable generals, only Zhang He, Gao Lan, Qu Yi, Yuan Shao and a few others.
Others Zhu Ling, Jiang Qi, Ma Yan, Jiao Hu, Zhang Nan, Han Xun, Han Juzi, Lu Weihuang, Zhao Rui, Yan Chang, He Mao, Wang Mo, Xia Zhao, Lu Kuang, Gao Xiang, Feng Li, Deng Sheng, Guo
People like Yuan Yuan, Tao Sheng, and Meng Dai were at most middle-level Army Sima Colonels and did not yet have the ability to command large-scale military operations.
Therefore, facing the threat from Qingzhou, Wang Fen felt a little overwhelmed. The main reason was that Jizhou was too big, and there was no danger to defend it. It was covered with plains, and there were too many places that needed to be defended. Therefore, it seemed that there were many soldiers and a large general.
But because there were too many enemies, they did not dare to move lightly.
Many worries made Wang Fen a little distressed. He was already old, and he occasionally caught wind and cold a few days ago and got sick. Although he had just recovered not long ago, his body was already exhausted and he was already thinking about his successor.
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The emperor of Jizhou is very young, only eleven years old, so naturally he cannot make the decision. Now Jizhou is also an official in accordance with the imperial regulations. Wang Fen has now become a Taiwei, Chen Yi is a Situ, and Xun He is a Sikong.
The other nine ministers also had enfeoffments. Among them, Yuan Shao was a strong party member and Xun He and others were friends with him, so he was reused by Wang Fen. He is now the right general, occupying the Bohai Sea, and has tens of thousands of troops under his command to defend Qingzhou.
During the attack from the Pingyuan Kingdom, Zhang, He, Gao Lan, Qu Yi and others were all Zhonglang generals and led their own troops to garrison. Things in Jizhou were still in good order.
"It's a pity that people in this world can't see my good intentions?"
Wang Fen sighed.
He governed Jizhou well, but he could not govern the world well.
It was obvious that the emperor he established was from the same lineage as Emperor Huan and Kangdi, from the Hejian Kingdom, so why didn't the people of the world recognize him.
While he was shouting and sighing, a horse suddenly came to report to him outside the Taiwei's mansion.
"Lieutenant, the Black Mountain Army has invaded Wu'an County!"
The messenger came from Wu'an and was the Wu'an county captain himself.
Wang Fen summoned him in the middle hall of the Taiwei Mansion. After hearing his words, he frowned and asked, "How is the battle going?"
The Black Mountain Army often attacked the counties in the northwest of Jizhou. Changshan Kingdom, which was later known as Shijiazhuang, was often attacked. Wang Fen was almost used to it.
"Nothing to lose!"
The county captain replied.
"oh?"
Wang Fen was already prepared for losses, but he didn't expect any losses at all. He was quite surprised and said: "Did you defeat the Montenegrin Army?"
The county captain said: "It's Lu Bu who is here. He ran back to Bingzhou from Chang'an, and then from Bingzhou to Jizhou, helping us repel the Black Mountain Army. He also said that he came to Jizhou to join the Taiwei, and he had some differences with Liu Bei.
We share a common hatred, and I only hope that the Taiwei can give him a place to live, and he is willing to help the Taiwei attack Liu Bei!"
"Lu Bu?"
Wang Fen's brows suddenly furrowed. He didn't like Lu Bu's behavior. He was about to tell the county captain to let him reject Lu Bu, but he hesitated for a moment and said: "Okay, I understand, you go ahead.
I’ll go find Sikong to discuss it before making a decision.”
"only!"
The county captain retreated.
Wang Fen waved her hand and asked the guards in the hall to retreat, and the sadness on her brows became even deeper.
He didn't like Lu Bu's honest character.
But in the face of Liu Bei's aggressiveness, he also felt that Jizhou's military affairs were not good and lacked the talents of generals, so he felt deeply troubled.