Chapter 1102 1 Everything is under control?
Chapter 1102 Everything is under control?
After the grand court meeting on the first day of October, Shao Xun met Fu Hong in Taiji Hall, a man who was ridiculed for taking his son's surname.
His son Fu Jian was also present.
His original name was Pu Pi, but in order to keep it secret, Shao Xun "suggested" him to change his name to Fu Jian to cover up the truth.
Shao Xun was very kind to Fu Jian. Not only did he send people to protect him, he also hired teachers to teach him cultural knowledge and rewarded him with some money and property from time to time.
After the fall of Liu Han, Fu Jian was free, but he continued to stay in Luoyang. Fu Hongfa sold his cattle and sheep and bought a house in Luoyang for Fu Jian to live in, and he continued to be a hostage, although no one asked him to do so.
Shao Xun was still very satisfied with this.
Taking into account that Fu Hong's eldest son died of illness while stationed in Huainan, he gave him the position of Yamen Jiang (fifth rank) and granted him a thousand pieces of silk and a hundred gold and silver items as a way of appeasement.
The main reason for summoning the father and son of the Fu family today is that they are required to fight for their lives again: Fu Hong led 5,000 Di soldiers southward and temporarily came under the command of Shao Shen to prepare for the Jin people.
After hearing what Shao Xun said, Fu Hong groaned in his heart and was even a little angry, but he finally agreed.
He moved east from Guanzhong and had many old connections in the west, so he was able to find out a lot of information. Almost all rebellions were brutally suppressed.
The man in front of him was truly tyrannical and he didn't care at all if anyone opposed him.
Three years after the founding of the country, rebellions have occurred one after another and have never been truly settled, but Shao Xun is not afraid at all. Fu Hong even suspected that he was deliberately waiting for these tribes to revolt, and then suppress them, and finally gain land and population.
Tyrant! If the tribes in Guanzhong and Helong rebel together someday, I wonder if we can still be so at ease?
"After you go south, if the Prince of Julu asks you to go to Badong, you must not disobey military orders." Shao Xun said, pointing to the map.
At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, Badong originally governed seven counties. Later, because the population was too small, it was merged, so there were four counties left, namely Yufu (now Fengjie, Chongqing), Quren (now Yunyang, Chongqing), Hanfeng (now Kaizhou, Chongqing), and Nanpu (now Wanzhou, Chongqing).
The last time Li Cheng's army attacked, they went straight to the city of Nanpu and captured it almost without a fight. Then the entire army went to the city of Boyufu and besieged it for a long time. More than 3,000 people died in the battle, but the city was not captured.
For an army of more than 10,000 people, this loss was already huge, so they lifted the siege and fled.
Guanqiu Ao sent officials to various counties to investigate the situation.
Hanfeng County was still in our hands without a fight;
Qu Ren was just giving a false alarm, the other party didn't fight at all, the weapon was still in his hands;
Yufu County was held, and also in our hands;
There were hundreds of soldiers in Nanpu County. After seeing the heads of the dead soldiers and the captured flags and banners brought from the county town, they fled in panic.
At this point, Guanqiu won the battle to defend Badong.
However, the situation was still not optimistic. There were too few soldiers in Badong County, and the inclination of the barbarian leaders was crucial. They were now inclined towards the Jin Dynasty, but if they were attacked again, would some of them be inclined towards the Cheng Kingdom?
This is very likely to happen, because when the Cheng army attacked Nanpu, most of the barbarian chiefs just stood by and watched. Only one or two tribes sent some soldiers to resist, but they were quickly defeated.
Therefore, after hearing the news that Cheng State was going to attack Badong for the second time, Guanqiu Ao urgently asked for reinforcements.
By this time, he had sent his eldest son Guanqiu Yin to lead hundreds of county soldiers and two thousand young and strong barbarian chieftains with whom he had close relations to march west to win over the hearts of the people in Nanpu and defend the city.
The second son Guanqiu Ji led his troops to Hanfeng. He had no other requests, just to stabilize the people's hearts and prevent them from surrendering to the enemy.
As for the important Kuimen area of Yufu, it was completely handed over to the newly arrived Liang army.
Shao Xun has received a letter from Badong almost every seven or eight days recently. The most recent one was received yesterday, written on September 24. In the letter, Guanqiu Ao stressed the importance of Badong and requested to send troops to attack the Jiangbei part of Yidu and Jianping counties to open up the land route, which was basically the same as Shao Shen's idea.
Shao Xun gave the power to declare war to his nephew and let him make his own decision. The bottom line was to keep Badong, no matter what means were used.
Badong is not the later Hubei Badong, but the eastern part of Chongqing, where the dangers of the Three Gorges Kuimen are all within reach. From Badong to the west, you can attack the "Three Ba Regions" (Badong, Baxi, Ba), where there are not many obstacles in terms of terrain.
The Former Jin Dynasty separated Badong and made it under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou. In fact, it did not want the newly conquered Shu area to have the dangerous terrain - Hanzhong, Zitong and Daba Mountains area also belonged to Liangzhou.
This state was created out of thin air, winding from Hanzhong and Daba Mountain to the southeast, all the way to the eastern part of Shu, stripping away all the gateways to Shu. If Li Cheng had not captured Baxi and Ba County, there would have been no terrain advantage at all, and the enemy could have marched directly into the flat basin.
Now that this opportunity has been given to him, Shao Xun will certainly not give up.
The only worry is that if the enemy navy blocks the river, land transportation alone will not be able to support many troops. Therefore, when the day comes to enter Sichuan, we must focus on elite troops and minimize consumption.
Of course, that is all a matter for the future. Currently, Shao Xun only wants to control Badong and occupy the eastern gateway of Shu, especially when the northern gateway (Hanzhong) cannot be captured in a short time.
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After seeing off the father and son of the Fu family, Shao Xun rested in the palace.
For half a month, Shuyuan Guanqiu was the one who slept with him most of the time.
The young girl back then is now in her early thirties, but the gorge is still as tight as the natural barrier of Kuimen in Badong.
Shao Xun was much more comfortable dealing with the inexperienced Guanqiu Shuyuan.
Often, before the real fighting even started, Guanqiu had already been manipulated to the point of being a little out of his mind.
Such good days lasted until October 16, the day after the Wangri meeting, when a piece of news from the north broke the peace: Helan Aitou had died...
Luoyang is more than a thousand miles north, and the north wind is howling.
The grassland in late October has shed its summer attire, replaced by a desolate and bleak scene.
The yellow grass swayed in the wind, sometimes standing proudly, sometimes being crushed to the ground.
The outline of Yinshan Mountain was clearly visible, and a large amount of snow remained in the shade of the foothills. It was not uncommon for snow to fall in August in the Hutian area, and the grasslands north of Yinshan Mountain had already experienced two or three snowfalls.
The sky was dotted with yellow clouds, which looked particularly high and far away. They were like silent observers, watching the rise and fall of the grassland tribes day after day.
"Crash..." The thin ice was crushed by the horses' hooves, splashing water into the sky. The panting warhorse crossed the narrow stream and rushed to the other side.
The knight on horseback had an extremely ferocious look on his face, and murderous intent was rising to the sky.
The shepherd who was repairing the livestock pen looked at it and stopped what he was doing in a daze: Wow... so many cavalry!
The earth seemed to be unable to bear the weight and was shaking in pain.
On the eastern horizon, smoke and dust rose into the sky, and dark shadows filled the entire Nozhen Branch like mercury.
Experienced shepherds can roughly judge the number of people coming from the shaking of the earth and the density of the horse hoofbeats. The shepherd who was repairing the shed was over fifty years old and had seen many large-scale cavalry charges in his life. He felt that this group of people coming with such a fierce momentum might be no less than ten thousand.
He shouted subconsciously and rushed to his horse.
His wife and children also rushed out of the tent and stared blankly at the invading enemy.
The cavalry figures became clearer and clearer.
The sound of hooves was deafening, and the dust almost covered half the sky. Some of the people in the front were even wearing iron armor, like a moving steel jungle.
The military flags fluttered, the neighing of war horses and the sudden shouts of the knights intertwined together, making people tremble in the soul.
Perhaps - it was too late to escape.
The shepherd's legs went limp and he fell to the ground.
He is lucky, and his whole family is lucky.
A huge group of cavalry roared past not far to their north and rushed towards the river beach in the west, which was the residence of Wuyuan County Duke Tuoba Yihuai.
The cavalry waves were still advancing, surging and violent, one after another, one wave after another.
The shepherds seemed to smell rust and sweat in the air.
He knew it was an illusion. After shaking his head slightly, he looked to the northwest and whispered softly, "The Chanyu is finished."
The east was clearly guarded by the Uluolan tribe, which was the most loyal to the Chanyu. How come this cavalry suddenly rushed over?
Where is Ulolan? Has he been defeated?
The nobles of the Helan clan are extremely furious at the moment, fighting with the tribes loyal to the Chanyu. Is there anyone who can come to rescue the Nuozhen Branch?
The shepherd's question was exactly what Tuoba Yihuai wanted to ask, but unfortunately, no one could answer him.
When the violent wave of cavalry broke the tranquility of the wilderness and easily crushed his two hastily organized counterattacks, Yihuai knew that everything was over.
The bitch Wang was already very powerful. If Helan Aitou was still there, she might be able to resist for a while and wait for the Daliang court to mediate.
But Aitou was killed by him! He really couldn't swallow that breath.
The nobles of the Helan tribe hurriedly fled from the Nuozhen River and returned to their own tribe to gather troops.
Yihuai knew that he was impulsive and lacked consideration.
After killing Helan Aitou, they should take advantage of the situation to advance and annex his tribe, but the leaders of the various tribes were extremely shocked by his behavior. They had different opinions and quarreled for a short period of time.
This is the consequence of being impulsive.
To put it bluntly, this was not a long-planned power grab, but a murder committed in a fit of rage.
After some tribes came to him, he became complacent and gradually lost sight of the situation. In addition, his uncle was too disrespectful to him and often beat, scolded and humiliated him. He could not bear it anymore, so he took the opportunity to ambush his confidants, surrounded and killed his uncle and his followers.
As expected, the news spread and the entire area north of Yixin Mountain suddenly fell into chaos.
In the past half month, small-scale battles have already begun. After repeated arguments, the leaders of various tribes finally reached a consensus: things have come to this point, there is no other way but to fight a battle with Helan and his cronies.
But what happened today?
The sound of horse hooves approaching from the east was overwhelming, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air was overwhelming.
Tuoba Yihuai seemed to see that bitch Wang laughing at him from afar.
"Great Chanyu, let's go!" In a trance, his confidants ran over and helped him onto the horse.
But it seems a little too late.
There was smoke and dust all over the sky in the north and south, and an endless swamp in the west - it used to be a treasure land with abundant water and grass, but now it is a natural chasm of death.
The cavalry torrent advanced rapidly and soon submerged Tuoba Yihuai's golden tent.
The Golden Tent was like a big tree in the flood. After being severely crushed by several waves, it finally fell to the ground with a loud bang.
On October 330th of the fourth year of Kaiping in Daliang (), Lady Wang, the wife of the Dai Kingdom, sent General Yu Ju, the General of Zhenxi, to lead more than cavalrymen to advance westward from Dongmugen Mountain. Taking advantage of the civil strife in Yixin Mountain, they raided the Nuozhen River branch, beheaded Tuoba Yihuai, and killed dozens of his family members, including Yihuai's baby who was only a few months old. They wiped out the roots of the rebellion very thoroughly.
After Yihuai's death, the tribes in Yixin Mountain scattered like monkeys when the trees fell. Most of them surrendered, while a few fled far away.
At this time, the imperial edict of the Daliang court to change Tuoba Yihuai's title to Duke Shuaiyi was still on the way.
The Yicong Army and the Luoyan Army had just crossed the Yellow River and were heading towards Shengle and Wuyuan.
The envoy who conferred the title of Duke of Wuyuan on Tuoba Jing was even still in Taiyuan.
In the end, everything was over. The situation changed so quickly that it was astonishing.
(End of this chapter)