Among the others, Wang Jun is flashy, arrogant, and Gou Xi is cruel, and they are not talented people who can help the world.
Therefore, when the center is overturned, states and counties, one force comes and joins together today, another force comes to intervene tomorrow, and then disperses, and cannot rescue the center. It is really sad!
Since Wang Mi and Shi Le had defected to Liu Yuan, they could not sit idle with Liu Yuan, so Liu Yuan asked them to attack Yecheng.
At this time, Shangshu Youpushe and Yu were guarding Yecheng, Wang Mi and Shi Le attacked Yecheng, and He Yu fled to Weiguo (now Guancheng County, Shandong). Later, Shi Le harassed Jizhou and captured more than a hundred fortresses.
Liu Yuan's sons Liu Cong and Wang Mi harassed Shangdang, and with Shi Le as the vanguard, they surrounded and captured Huguan County (now part of Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, located in the southeast of Shanxi Province). Shangdang surrendered.
Perhaps this was a good sign, and the journey continued with unstoppable momentum and victory after repeated battles.
However, this is not a good thing. After another victory, Liu Cong thought they had won and did not set up any defenses. Yuan Yan, the prefect of Hongnong (today's northeastern Yellow River coast of Lingbao City, Henan Province), came to pretend to surrender, launched a night attack, and killed Liu Cong.
Cong Yi and others defeated him.
Another one who pretended to surrender. You can't take it lightly at any time. An arrogant army will lose and a sad army will win.
In the winter of the same year, soldiers were recruited again, and Liu Cong, Wang Mi, Liu Yao, Liu Jing and others were sent to lead 50,000 elite cavalry to attack Luoyang, and Hu Yanyi was sent to lead infantry to respond.
Although they defeated the Jin army in the first battle, when the Jin army's reinforcements arrived, they killed them in pieces. Liu Yuan summoned Liu Cong and others to return.
Later, Shi Le harassed Changshan (now Zhengding County, Hebei). Although the Xianbei cavalry led by Qi Hong sent by Wang Jun rescued him, and defeated Shi Le at Feilong Mountain (now southeast of Huolu County, Hebei), but
, Shi Le then advanced with great success and reached the Nanji River.
After Liu Yuan's death, his son Liu He assumed the throne, but was killed by Liu Cong to seize the throne.
Wang Jun also used the Xianbei people to regain Nanji River and attack Xiangcheng (today's Xiangcheng County, Henan).
At this time, Wang Ru, Hou Tuo and Yan Yi rebelled, and Shi Le absorbed the people of Hou Tuo and Yan Yi. It seems that Shi Le began to develop his own power.
After Liu Cong seized the throne, the fighting did not stop. He fought all the way to Luoyang and captured the cities around Luoyang. Luoyang was surrounded by enemies on all sides and became increasingly isolated and critical.
At this time, there was a great famine in Luoyang, and all the surrounding cities were captured. There was no way materials could be transported into Luoyang city.
Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, due to his own reasons, the center could not be aligned with him, which immediately put Sima Yue into a dilemma.
This time when Luoyang was in crisis, Sima Yue sent out feathers to summon soldiers from all over the world, but no one responded.
Sima Yue had to go to Jin Huai Emperor Sima Chi to request an order to attack Shi Le, and to gather soldiers from Yanzhou and Yuzhou to rescue the capital.
Sima Chi said:
"The rebels have all attacked today. In the royal area outside the capital, the royal family is stupid and restless. Without a firm will, how can they leave far away and become completely isolated?"
But I was cursing in my heart:
Who is responsible for this situation today! You still have the nerve to come and ask for an order, I will order it from your sister!
Sima Yue said:
"After the thieves are put down, the tribute payments from the eastern states to the imperial court will be smooth. But if we stay in the capital, our worries will become more serious."
It can be seen that Kyoto at that time was actually no longer able to stand on its own feet.
Sima Chi thought about it and felt that what Sima Yue said was right:
Although I hate this old boy, he is right this time. I can’t die now, I still have to restore the great cause of the royal family!
So Sima Yue left a group of people to guard Kyoto, led an army of 40,000 soldiers, and took Sima Chi, Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty, to the east to station in Xiang County (in today's Shenqiu County, Henan Province). There were many princes, ministers and officials accompanying him.
Since then, there has been no guard in the palace, and there has even been a famine that left the palace strewn with corpses.
Governments, temples, camps, and offices all dig trenches for self-defense. The thieves no longer sneak around and act openly. The sound of alarm drums is endless.
The effect of what Sima Yue said was concentrated in the states outside Kyoto has not yet been seen, and Kyoto is even less able to stand on its own.
From the fact that Shi Le was bought and sold, it can be seen that although it was a chaotic time, he must have had the habit of buying and selling foreign slaves in peacetime, and he still used this method to support the army in troubled times.
Among the many tribes in Taiyuan, there are thousands of Xiongnu and Hu people who make a living by renting farmland. Among them, there are many people without leaders, such as Shi Le. How can they not complain and think of rebellion?
The books all say that the land in Guanzhong is fertile and the products are rich, but in fact it is nothing more than that. The counties and counties are isolated and weak. It can be seen that how can they resist the legitimate expansion of powerful bandits? Moreover, this situation is becoming more and more lax and lax. , unprepared.
The general Gongshi Fan and others who were originally subordinate to Sima Ying had tens of thousands of cavalrymen. Shi Le and Ji Sang led herdsmen and rode hundreds of horses from the gardens and defected to Gongshi Fan.
Only then did Ji Sang ask Shi Le to take Shi as his surname and Yile as his first name.
However, Gongshifan led his troops to Baima (today's north of Huaxian County, Henan Province), where he fought with Gou Xi who came to attack him. As a result, he was defeated and killed, and Shi Le and Ji Sang fled back to the pasture.
Shi Le led the herdsmen to plunder the surrounding counties, and also attracted desperadoes scattered in the mountains and fields to respond to Ji Sang. Ji Sang called himself the general. The name of their army was: to kill Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, for the king of Chengdu, Sima Ying. , Ma Teng, Dongying Company.
Ji Sang led his troops to attack Yecheng, beheaded Sima Teng, and then attacked Yanzhou southward from Yanjin (now north of Yanjin County, Henan).
After Sima Yue learned about the situation, he was very scared:
"Damn it! These barbarians are exactly what Kong Xun and Yang Jue said!"
He sent Gou Xi, Wang Zan and others to lead an army to attack Ji Sang, Shi Le and others.
Sima Yue went to Guandu (now northeast of Zhongmou, Henan) to support Gou Xi and others.
Gou Xi sniffed and looked at Sima Yue with disdain, who was still waving at them:
Old boy, if you have the ability, go to the battlefield with us! Support is useful!
The armies of Ji Sang and Shi Le were all ragtag. They were lucky to be able to attack Yecheng and kill Sima Teng. However, the goddess of luck could not always stay by their side, so this time they were defeated by Gou Xi and others. defeat.
They gathered the remaining people and prepared to defect to Liu Yuan, but unfortunately, the goddess of bad luck came to them.
In Chiqiao (now northwest of Liaocheng County, Shandong Province), they encountered the Jizhou governor Ding Shao, Ji Sang, and Shi Le who came to attack them and were defeated.
After this battle, Ji Sang fled back to the pasture, and Shi Leben fled to Leping (northeast of Jiangxi Province). Later, Ji Sang was killed by the Jin army in Pingyuan (northwest of Shandong Province).
Governor Zhang? of the Hu tribe, Feng Motu and others had thousands of troops and were entrenched in Shangdang. Shi Le went to defect to them. They were deceived by Shi Le and agreed to Shi Le's suggestion and defected to Liu Yuan.
What Gou Xiong said here is a bit exaggerated, but it is not actually a lie. The situation was turbulent at that time. Zhang and Feng only had a few thousand people. They really could not compete with the tide at that time. It was the right choice to defect to Liu Yuan.
Of course Liu Yuan was happy. He appointed Governor Zhang as the King of the Han Dynasty, Feng Motu as the Commander-in-Chief, and Shi Le as the general to assist the Han Dynasty and defeat the King of Jin to lead everyone.
Fulidu, the leader of the Wuwan clan, had two thousand soldiers and was entrenched in Leping. Liu Yuan repeatedly recruited him, but Fulidu was unwilling to submit to Liu Yuan.
I would rather be a chicken head than a cow queen, but it has to be said that Fulidu is short-sighted.
After Shi Le learned about this situation, he said to Liu Yuan:
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will settle that boy for Your Majesty!"
Liu Yuan was very happy after hearing this.
According to the plan, Shi Le pretended to have made a mistake with Liu Yuan, so he defected to Fulidu.
Fulidu had no doubt about him and happily accepted Shi Le. However, Shi Le turned his back and arrested him, and led Fulidu's men to surrender to Liu Yuan.
Volidu cried bitterly in prison:
"Who said all Han people are treacherous?! That bastard wrote irresponsibly?! We Hu people are not necessarily all good people!"
Now Shi Le showed his face in front of Liu Yuan. Liu Yuan patted Shi Le on the shoulder very happily:
"Oh my, my brother is so awesome. He defeated Volidu in one go! I admire him very much!"
Shi Le said humbly:
"Your Majesty, your Majesty has given you too much praise. Your Majesty and I are the ones who have been beaten by Zhou Yu."
Liu Yuan was even more happy when he heard that Shi Le compared him to Zhou Yu. He gave Shi Le the title of superintendent of various military expeditions in Shandong, and assigned Fulidu's tribe to Shi Le's command.
Shi Le was quite happy when he heard the first part. He was getting more and more powerful, which was good for him. But when he heard the second part, he felt unhappy: (To be continued)