There was a fire that year, and Chang'an City was in dilapidated condition.
Duan Xuan attacked Jingzhaoyin from Huayin, defeated Li Jue and Guo Si, and occupied the city.
In fact, this battle was not due to Duan Xuan being great, but because Li Jue and Guo Si were raising gu in Chang'an at that time, and they were fighting fiercely with each other.
Serious internal strife caused the strength of Li Jue and Guo Si, who originally had tens of thousands of soldiers each, to be greatly reduced, and the morale of the army was low. Duan Xuan easily dealt with them.
After occupying Chang'an, Duan Xuan never took action elsewhere in Guanzhong. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but that he lacked the strength.
Li Jue and Guo Si took advantage because of internal friction. Han Sui and Ma Teng had not started fighting at that time, and their overall strength was still there.
Han and Ma each have tens of thousands of soldiers, and the combined number of soldiers and horses can be more than 100,000. In addition, there are Liang Xing, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu and others in Guanzhong.
warlord.
The situation in the entire Guanzhong region can be said to be very complicated. Various warlords are fighting each other, the people are in dire straits, life is worse than death, and people's livelihood is almost in ruins.
In fact, since the beginning of Emperor He, the Sanfu area has been repeatedly harassed by Qiang rebellion, and its population has dropped sharply.
During the period of Emperor Huan and Emperor Kangdi, the situation in Guanzhong became even more severe. Qiang chaos in Xiliang, Han rebellions, and endless civil strife would all affect Guanzhong.
The imperial court had almost no control over Xiliang. As a result, the first target after Xiliang's rebellion was Guanzhong. They came to the land of Sanfu and burned, killed and looted everywhere, leaving the originally prosperous Guanzhong Plain in a mess.
So after Guan Yu arrived in Chang'an, he discovered that the place was actually a mess. Ju Saoguang arranged military affairs, appeased the people's livelihood, repaired the city walls, maintained public security and other series of tasks, which was a headache.
Fortunately, Duan Yan is not an incompetent person. Before he came, he had barely maintained the dire situation on Jing Zhaoyin's side. It was just that he was not strong enough and could not cover everything.
When Guan Yu and Jushu came, they not only brought 50,000 troops, but also a large number of grassroots officials who graduated from Taishan Academy, quickly supplementing Jing Zhaoyin's grassroots governance.
People's livelihood, public security and military defense have all been rapidly improved. In just four months, Jing Zhaoyin has recovered to a pretty good level.
Guan Yu was living in a mansion in Chang'an City at this time. It was originally a palace of a high official, but now it has become a palace of a hussar general.
In the original Han Dynasty official system, the general was an official position and was in charge of the country's military.
After Chen Mu's restructuring, he canceled the original rank of general and changed it to a military rank. At the same time, he established a new rank of marshal, which was held by Liu Bei. He then upgraded the rank of general Wei and formed a structure of three generals.
Therefore, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Chen Mu are all generals according to their military ranks, but their actual official titles should be General of Hussars, General of Chariots and Generals, and General of Guards.
Below the general are the superior generals, namely the front, rear, left, center, southeast, northwest, northeast, and southwest nine tiger generals.
The specific personnel are the former general Dian Wei, the rear general Tai Shi Ci, the right general Zang Ba, the left general Zhang Liao, the middle general Gao Shun, the southeast general Huang Zhong, the northwest general Zhao Yun, the southwest general Qian Zhao, and the northeast general Xu Zheng.
Below the generals are the sixteen generals. They are Four Expeditions, Four Towns, Four Ans and Four Pings. Recently, Zhang Xiu was added, filling the title of Seventeenth General. The specific title is General of the Former Army.
The four generals of the front, rear, left and right are generals with heavy titles, but during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, four generals with mixed titles were newly established: the front army, the rear army, the left army, and the right army, which were called the four army generals.
After Zhang Xiu joined, Chen Mu established the Four Army Generals, canceled the so-called miscellaneous generals, added sixteen generals, four expeditions, four towns, four towns, four peaces and four levels, and added the four armies, and combined them into twenty generals.
In fact, normally speaking, the titles of generals in the Han Dynasty are not concepts of military ranks. If we want to simplify the army and make it less complicated, we should cancel these titles and just use military ranks and positions.
For example, Guan, Zhang, and Chen canceled the names of Generals of Hussars, Generals of Chariots, and Generals of Wei. They were directly divided into three generals, equivalent to three commanders-in-chief, and then nine generals, twenty lieutenant generals, and dozens of major generals.
If so, it would be much simpler.
But the current era is like this. Although the concept of military ranks has been around since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the system at that time was like this, with military ranks plus names plus specific duties.
For example, the Great Sima Cao Zhen during the Cao Wei Dynasty, his full title should be the Great Sima, the general of the Shang army, the commander-in-chief of all Chinese and foreign military affairs, and the false sword.
Among them, Grand Sima is his official position, General of the Army is his military rank, and Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese and Foreign Military Forces is the specific army he is in charge of.
Therefore, many things cannot be made one size fits all and need to be improved step by step.
Guan Yu's current title is very long. His official position is Hussar General, his military rank is General, and then he is the Commander-in-Chief of all military affairs in Guanzhong.
Jushou is Jingzhao Yin, a general and military adviser, supervising all military affairs in Guanzhong, and a county prince. This does not include his position as a secondary assistant in the cabinet.
Duan Xuan entered the ranks of the twenty generals, whose full titles were Lieutenant General, Zhenxi General, and Xianghou.
Then there are Guan Hai, Lieutenant General, Pingxi General, and Xianghou.
Then came Yang Feng, Han Xian, Li Le, Hu Cai and others, also ranked among the twenty generals, all of whom were country princes.
After all, these people joined very early and had been under Guan Yu's command before. Even Yang Feng's subordinate Xu Huang was promoted to the rank of twenty generals, and they were among them according to their seniority.
Finally, there are more than 20 generals and generals such as Guan Ping, Li Bo, Guan Cheng, Wang Dan, Zhang Rao, etc., who constitute the current military system of Guanzhong.
There are currently 70,000 people in Guanzhong, and Zhang Fei has 30,000 people who have gone to Hedong, for a total of 100,000 troops.
At this moment, Guan Yu was sitting in his Hussar General's residence, reading military documents.
Jushuo hurried in with an official document in his hand. As soon as he entered the door, he smiled and said: "Yun Chang, good news."
"What's wrong, Gong Yu."
Guan Yu put down the documents in his hands. At present, all military affairs have been arranged. In addition to personally leading 30,000 troops to guard Chang'an, troops and horses are also stationed in surrounding counties.
Jushou held up the official document in his hand, walked over quickly, put it on his desk and said with a smile, "Han Sui and Ma Teng are fighting."
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Guan Yu was a little confused when he received the document. The two men had already fought once because of conflicts before. Shouldn't they be sitting on the mountain watching the fight between tigers and waiting for the result?
Jushou became happy and said, "It's different this time. They were fighting dogs. Ma Teng defeated Han Sui first. Han Sui gathered some other Xiliang powerful men and joined forces to defeat Ma Teng. They also killed Ma Teng's wife and children. Both sides have already
Become a mortal enemy."
"oh?"
Guan Yu looked at the contents of the document and asked with a smile: "It's interesting. What do you think we should do?"
Jushou said: "This is a great opportunity for us to regain the entire Guanzhong and even Xiliang. Han Sui won a great victory in the first battle, and Ma Teng's troops were killed and defeated. Now we gather the remaining troops in the area around Fufeng Huaili on the right, close to us."
So close, there are no more than 10,000 horses and soldiers, the food and grass are empty, and the army's morale is weak, it is time to conquer it."
"Is that possible?"
Guan Yu hesitated and said: "He is weak at this time, why not eliminate him in one fell swoop?"
Jushou shook his head and said, "Ma Teng still has some uses. He has a high prestige among the Xiliang Qiang people. If we can persuade him to serve the imperial court, we can pacify Guanzhong and capture Xiliang in the future, and it will be twice the result with half the effort."
"Um."
Guan Yu nodded and said, "Then let me leave this matter to you."
Jushou said, "Okay, I'll send the lobbyists there."
Without hesitation, Jushou quickly sent lobbyists to Huaili to persuade Ma Teng to surrender to the court.
The lobbyist was You Fufeng Zhang Ji who was newly transferred to Guanzhong. He was previously the magistrate of Jing County in Henan Province. He was appreciated by Zhong Yao and promoted to the magistrate of Luoyang.
Because he was from Gaoling, Zuo Fengyi, and had served as the magistrate of Xinfeng County. His political performance was the first among the three assistants, so he was appointed by the imperial court as You Fufeng. He is currently in Chang'an and can take office after the imperial court regains You Fufeng.
After Zhang Ji arrived at Huaili, he rode alone into Ma Teng's camp.
Along the way, he saw howling in Ma Teng's camp, the morale of the soldiers was low, and the guards were not very strict, and he suddenly had an idea in his mind.
"The imperial envoy has arrived!"
Following the announcement from the guard at the door, the tent curtain was opened.
Under the leadership of the soldiers, Zhang Ji entered the main army tent, glanced around, and saw several people inside.
Everyone was standing or sitting, and among them sat a middle-aged man in the main seat. He had a resolute face and a straight nose, and his appearance was somewhat different from that of the Han people from the Central Plains.
The rest were either relatives of Ma Teng or some of his generals, such as the eldest son Ma Chao, nephew Ma Dai, and several other unknown generals such as Pang De, standing around.
After Zhang Ji came in, he saluted with neither humility nor arrogance: "I'm here, right, Fufeng Zhang Ji. I've met General Andi."
"You Fufeng, please sit down."
Ma Teng didn't ask for help, and quickly asked Zhang Ji to sit down. At this time, he was almost at the end of his rope. His wife and two other sons had been killed by Han Sui, so naturally he did not dare to offend the imperial court.
In fact, in history, he was almost wiped out by Han Sui during this dispute with Han Sui.
If Cao Cao hadn't sent Zhong Yao and Wei Duan to persuade him to make peace, Han Sui was afraid of forcing Ma Teng to the court completely, so he could only agree to the court's conditions. This gave Ma Teng a chance to breathe, and continued to occupy the right, Fufeng, left, Fengyi and others.
The land gradually grew stronger, and later helped Cao Cao defeat Gao Gan and kill Guo Yuan.
The situation this time was similar to that in history. The difference was that Cao Cao had just won the Battle of Guandu at that time, Yuan Shao was not dead yet, and Hebei had not been recovered. Therefore, even if it was a good time to recover Guanzhong, he did not have the extra troops to go there.
Now Liu Bei has gradually eliminated Yuan Shao's main force through several large-scale battles, and finally completely defeated Yuan Shao, regained the entire Hebei, and with Qingzhou, his strength is not much different from Cao Cao on the eve of the Battle of Chibi.
Although the imperial court is currently mainly recuperating and recuperating, it does not plan to use troops in Henan, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou and other places.
However, places such as Guanzhong Youzhou and Nanyang do not have any strong enemies, and unlike Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Yizhou, there are many natural dangers that are difficult to overcome. Therefore, the imperial court will not launch large-scale wars, but will use small-scale wars to regain these areas.
Chen Mu on the Youzhou side had already made arrangements for Xu Rong to go to Sanhan to seize Liaodong, so there was a high probability that there would be no problem. Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu on the Nanyang side had no idea of resisting the imperial court, and decisively sold Liu Biao and surrendered, and the process was very simple.
Smooth. All that remains is whether Guanzhong can be recovered easily.
The current situation is that Han Sui has occupied Xiliang, Beidi, Anding, Hanyang, Wudu and other Xiliang counties close to Fufeng on the right and Fengyi on the left. They are all under his control. Ma Teng was pushed back to Huaili.
Most of the land to the west of Fufeng was also occupied by Han Sui.
These places were probably from Tianshui to Baoji in later generations, while Ma Teng was pushed back to Xingping and Xianyang in later generations. If they continued to retreat, they would most likely evacuate in the direction of Zuofeng Yi, which is Tongchuan.
The imperial court watched the fire from across the bank. After seeing Ma Teng being severely defeated and even his wife and children being killed, they immediately realized that it was a good opportunity and planned to persuade Ma Teng to surrender.
After Zhang Ji sat down, he smiled and said to Ma Teng: "General, the general should know what I am going to do here this time."
Ma Teng nodded: "I know."
Zhang Ji then said, "Has the general thought it through clearly?"
"this......"
Ma Teng hesitated for a moment and looked around.
You say surrender, but you don't even mention the conditions. How can anyone in this world persuade someone to surrender like this?
Zhang Ji then said: "I know what the general is thinking. Today, Mr. Xuande has always been benevolent and loyal. As long as the general is willing to surrender to the court, everything will be easy."
"snort!"
At this moment, Ma Chao snorted coldly: "My father is after General Fubo. He has a very high prestige in Xiliang. With a call, countless people will follow. The imperial court is just taking advantage of others' danger and wants to force us to surrender. If we
Why don’t you surrender?”
Zhang Ji glanced at this twenty-four-year-old young man who was extremely majestic and majestic, and said with a smile: "General, I wonder who this is?"
"My son Ma Chao."
Ma Teng replied noncommittally.
"oh."
Zhang Ji nodded, stood up and said, "In that case, I will report it to General Guan and explain the matter in detail, and General Guan will make the decision."
General Guan?
Ma Teng suddenly became vigilant, and quickly stood up and grabbed Zhang Ji and said: "You Fufeng, wait a minute, sit down first and then talk, sit down first and then talk."
Zhang Ji smiled, sat down again without resisting, and said, "General, is there anything else you want?"
Ma Teng hesitated and said: "General Guan...could it be?"
"good."
Zhang Ji nodded: "Guan Yu, the cavalry general, has personally led an army of 100,000 to Chang'an, and Zhang Fei, a cavalry general, has led 50,000 people to Hedong. The imperial court plans to regain Guanzhong this year and Xiliang next year. General Ma still wants to
It’s better to make a decision early.”
"this......."
Ma Teng was frightened for a moment and did not dare to speak.
There was also silence on the field.
An army of 150,000?
With such a huge number of troops, even the arrogant Ma Chao did not dare to speak out.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ji immediately smiled and said: "General Ma, you should know better. I came here and just want to ask one question. Since you are the queen of General Fubo, why are you disloyal to the Han and rebelling against the Han?"
"
"Of course I am loyal, but..."
Ma Teng responded quickly.
"Just what?"
Zhang Ji asked in reply: "Does General Ma also feel that your majesty's title for the throne is unfair? General Ma, please don't forget that today we are members of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Kangxi can trace his ancestors according to the genealogy, and more than ten generations of ancestors can be tested. Is it possible?"
Does General Ma think Emperor Kang will be wrong?"
"Of course not..."
Ma Teng had no choice but to reply.
Zhang Ji added: "The late Emperor Bo'an Gong is a descendant of the King of Donghai, the direct son and grandson of the ancestor. Does General Ma think that the late Emperor is not worthy of being that emperor?"
"I don't think so..."
Ma Teng denied again.
Zhang Ji continued: "Then Duke Bo'an is said to be located in Duke Xuande, so what's the problem?"
"Forehead......."
Ma Teng had no choice but to answer honestly: "Many people in the world say... They all say that Duke Xuande forced Duke Bo'an..."
"hehe."
Zhang Ji laughed: "General Ma, you are in the third auxiliary, but not in the court. Do you think so, don't the princes of the Manchu Dynasty know? At that time, Duke Xuande and Duke Yun Chang led troops to fight against Yuan Shao, and the late emperor died.
At that time, there were no Qingzhou soldiers and horses in Luoyang, and there were no Qingzhou generals to control it. All the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were present, and the Northern Army loyal to the imperial court was also guarding Luoyang. How could Xuande force the late emperor?"
"But I heard that when the late emperor ascended the throne, he said that he would pass the throne to Emperor Zhang's descendants in the future. Why?"
Ma Teng raised doubts.
This is also the doubt of many people in the world, and it is also the excuse for Liu Biao, Cao Cao and others to rebel.
Zhang Ji shook his head and said: "Of course it's because the late emperor knew very well that instead of passing the throne to the descendants of Emperor Zhang who didn't know their abilities, it would be better to pass it on to Duke Xuande. Because only Duke Xuande can revive the Han Dynasty. Everyone is named Liu.
What's wrong with the Miao descendants of the great ancestor? Duke Bo'an is a truly benevolent master. He doesn't care whether the throne continues to be in the hands of the descendants of the great ancestor. He only cares that the Han Dynasty is still there. How can such sentiments be
Do you know?"
Ma Teng suddenly felt ashamed.
Zhang Ji added: "General Ma, let me tell you the truth. You are in a difficult situation now. Han Sui and you are already mortal enemies. Either he dies or you die. If you don't choose to submit to the imperial court, General Fu Bo will
Knowing that there is a descendant like you who rebelled against the imperial court, I am afraid that my ancestors will be humiliated. Secondly, you are now so powerful that if you continue to choose to be an enemy of the imperial court, the king's army will be approaching and disaster will be imminent. I say this from the bottom of my heart. General, please think twice!
"
Ma Teng thought for a long time, and finally seemed to have made up his mind. He raised his hands and said, "I understand. Today I will follow You Fufeng to Chang'an in person to meet with the General Hussar."
"good!"
Zhang Ji nodded and said with a smile: "Duan Yan once followed Dong Zhuo and caused trouble, but as long as he changed his mind and surrendered sincerely, the imperial court still appointed him as the General of Zhenxi, and made him a rural lord, and he was reused by the imperial court. In fact, this time General Guan sent him
I came here because after General Ma becomes a famous general, if he can be loyal to the court, he may be as famous as General Fubo in the future."
Thinking about the glory of his ancestors, Ma Teng couldn't help but yearn for it. He nodded repeatedly and said, "I understand. Please rest assured, You Fufeng. From now on, I will do my best for the imperial court!"