On April 20, almost half a month after the war started, a large group of cavalry suddenly appeared on the more than 100-mile road from Hongchiling to the north via Cangsong County to Guzang.
There were Low Qiang, Xianbei, and Xiongnu from the south of the Ling Dynasty, and there were also the Clan Qiang, Xianbei, and other miscellaneous barbarians from the north of the Ling Dynasty. The two sides were going back and forth, fighting non-stop.
This is not surprising. After absorbing a large number of refugees from the Yong and Qin Dynasties, the entire eleven counties of Liangzhou have already had a household registration exceeding one million. If the various tribes are carefully counted, it is not impossible that the population is close to 1.5 million.
Among the more than one million people, the Hu people accounted for the majority, and the number of Hu soldiers in Liangzhou's regular army reached about 60%. As for the unorganized army, the Hu people naturally accounted for the vast majority.
Liangzhou is actually a place under the banner of the Han family, but the Hu people are the main ethnic group. Fortunately, the Hu people are divided into multiple ethnic groups and are not unified, so they can barely maintain it.
They were either willing or forced to submit. In short, they obeyed the orders of both parties and continued to kill each other.
On the 21st, the battlefield spread to the Wuxing County area in the northwest of Guzang.
On the bank of the river, thousands of people suddenly rushed out of a lonely dock.
These thousand people were divided into two groups. One group consisted of 500 infantry troops, led by Yin Han, the Lord of Wubao. They were stationed on the east bank of the river, guarding the only stone bridge more than ten miles north and south.
Another five hundred people, each with horses, rushed out behind a majestic man.
This person has a wide body, thick arms, amazing strength, and two bulging breast shields on her chest. She is clearly a woman, Guo Fugui, the Yin Han's "beloved wife" of the Lord of Wubao.
The Guo family is a wealthy family in Xiping and Wuwei counties.
During the Cao Wei Dynasty, the Xiping Guo family rebelled and failed. Guo Man's daughter Guo was banished to the palace as a slave. However, she soon gained the favor of Emperor Wei Ming and made her his queen. The Xiping Guo family rose to fame - one by one,
The way this rises is also strange enough.
Guo Fugui's family took advantage of this trend and moved to Wuwei to serve as an official. However, after his father's death, because his foundation was too shallow and the number of people was too small, he did not even have a son, so he had to recruit a son-in-law.
In a sense, Guo Fugui is the one who "married" her husband, and the old man in Wubao is also from her family. In addition, she looks really "rich", so she can speak better than her husband in the fort.
This will lead the troops to rush out, like a large chariot, running rampant and brave and difficult to defeat.
The people and horses coming from who knows where were knocked upside down and scattered all over the ground. After regrouping in the distance, they found that the fierce general with a particularly strong breast goggle had changed his horse and was about to charge over again. Suddenly
Scalp numbness.
"Is there Yanzhi Changji Gong ahead?" Just when they were about to fight again, Yan Ding suddenly rushed over from the stone bridge and asked loudly.
Ji Yan, the leader of Yanzhi, was stunned and asked: "Who is you?"
"Tianshui Yan Ding." Yan Ding cupped his hands on his horse, then galloped dozens of steps closer, and said, "Ji Gong is a scholar from the Central Plains, and many of his soldiers are from Yongqin clans. Why do you rebel?"
When Ji Yan heard this, his eyes widened and he shouted, "I'm going to the disaster for justice, why should I say anything against it?"
"What is the meaning of public service?" Yan Ding asked.
"Zhang Xiping's mission is to help those in need." Ji Yan replied.
Wuxing County was established in Yongjiazhong. At that time, Guanzhong was in chaos, people from all walks of life were fighting endlessly, and many people lived in Liangzhou.
Zhang Gui then set up counties for the resettlement of overseas Chinese, and Wuxing County was one of them. At first, it only governed Yanzhi and Xin counties. Later, Wuxing, Xiangwu, Dacheng and other counties were added to it, and eventually there were eight or nine counties.
Qiao County is not a normal county, and Qiao County is also not a normal county. For example, in the Later Han Dynasty, there was Zhang County, which belonged to Longxi County. After the refugees from that area came over, Zhang Gui resettled them together and established a new county.
People from Xiangwu County, the county seat of Longxi County, rushed over and concentrated their resettlement in Xiangwu County.
The Han and Qiang people from Lueyang County rushed over and established Wuxing County because there was Wuxing City in Lueyang County.
All kinds of things.
How big are the eight or nine counties? In fact, it is only the area of ​​Yongchang in later generations, that is, the size of a county.
The reason is that there were only a few thousand households of refugees in Wuxing County at first, and only a few hundred households in Yongqin might have escaped, so these hundreds of households lived together in one county.
After a while, hundreds of families fled from another county and were resettled together. People from the same county lived together in a separate county.
Ji Yan was a scholar from Guanzhong. He fled westward with his father more than ten years ago and took his tribe of children and servants with him. He also picked up some refugees from Guanzhong on the way, so Zhang Gui set up Yanzhi County to resettle them and let them settle and support themselves.
Now his father has passed away and was buried in Wuxing. Because of his talent and learning, Ji Yan was appointed as the head of the Yan branch.
He still thought about the benefits of opening the rails, so he answered like this.
But Yan Ding replied: "This is a small righteousness, not a great righteousness."
"The emperor of Daliang swept away the northern land and tidied up the old mountains and rivers, so that the world would be at peace. Therefore, there was the Jin and Liang Zen dynasty, which eradicated the old and established the new."
"Now the northern land is peaceful, but Liangzhou has not yet been conquered, so there are conscripts traveling far away, and the army is thinning the city. At this time, the public raised troops to fight, and it will definitely gain a good reputation. However, those who followed the king to live in Liangzhou,
What will happen if the countryside and home are not preserved, and the parents and wives are uneasy? It is a small act of justice for you to repay Zhang Xiping's kindness, but it is a great act of justice to protect the safety of a county and township party. Zhang Xiping knows well under the spring.
I also urge you to put down your weapons and stop any unnecessary resistance."
After hearing this, Ji Yan's expression did not change, but the expressions of the generals and sergeants who came with him were timid.
Ji Yan glanced at them and sighed silently.
"The Duke said he was going to be in trouble again." Yan Ding got off his horse, stepped forward alone, and walked towards Ji Yan. As he walked, he said: "What is the difficulty in Liangzhou? It's because Zhang Jun doesn't know the weather and is stubbornly resisting. If he is not there,
Liangzhou has no difficulties."
"Besides Zhang Jun, all the Hu chiefs are ready to make a move. If all the mighty troops are wiped out, who will come to suppress the Hus? The difficulty at that time will probably make people even more anxious."
"It's hard to go to the wrong place." Yan Ding had already walked up to Ji Yan, took his hand and said, "It's hard to go to the wrong place."
Ji Yan's eyes were confused and his lips trembled slightly.
"Mr. Ji, the Emperor of Liang has great faith in the elders of Zhongliangzhou. After pacifying Liangzhou, you still have to rely on Gongzhong and others, so don't worry." Yan Ding shook his lips and tongue, stared at Ji Yan, and said: "Xin Gongming is Hezhou
The governor, the clan, and the governor are all from the old clan of Liangzhou."
At the end of the sentence, he lowered his voice and said, "Except for Mr. Zhang, nothing will change."
Ji Yan's eyelids twitched, and after a while, he asked in a hoarse voice: "How will your Majesty treat Mrs. Zhang?"
"Your Majesty can even tolerate Cao Yi, let alone the Zhang family?" Yan Ding said: "It is Zhang Jun who was harmed by the efforts of the public to resist. The more fierce the resistance, the greater the damage to the Daliang Wangshi, and the emperor became more and more angry.
, it’s hard to say what will happen to Zhang Gongting by then.”
"Now, I can move my family to Luoyang and become a rich man."
"As time goes by, I fear that all the men in the family will suffer, and the wives and daughters will no longer be slaves."
"Zhang Xiping was a hero, how could Mr. Ji bear to see his descendants end up in such a miserable state?"
"Alas!" Ji Yan sighed, tears streaming down his face.
With a sound of "Eunuch", he threw the knife to the ground and cried: "I am sorry for Duke Xiping's great kindness."
"Why did Duke Ji say this?" Yan Ding said in surprise: "Your Majesty still wants to reuse the public. If we can work together and guard Liangzhou for the imperial court, with the talents of the public, we will be promoted. In the future, we will take care of the descendants of the Zhang family.
What’s the difficulty?”
When Ji Yan heard this, he wiped his tears with his sleeve and said, "What you said is true. However, are the descendants of Duke Xiping really going to be fine?"
"The Emperor keeps his word, and he keeps his word. For more than twenty years, I have thought carefully about it. Is there anything that could break a promise today?" Yan Ding asked rhetorically.
Ji Yan thought for a moment and seemed to have never heard of it.
"After the Duke returns to Yanzhi, you can give some advice to the Lord of the Song Dynasty." Yan Ding said again: "I heard that he is gathering troops and horses, and this move is harmful to others and himself.
Ji Yan sighed again.
Although there are eight counties in Wuxing County, in fact, only the first two counties have city walls. Among them, Yanzhi is slightly larger, so the county seat is located here.
Yan Ding wanted him to take advantage of the prefect Song Xiu's unpreparedness and detain him.
Can this be done? He hesitated.
However, what Yan Ding said just now seems to be right, "Harm others and harm yourself"——""·
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On the same day, Zhao Shuang (shi), the governor of the West County, had just led more than 4,000 cavalry to the east, and saw that the gate of the county city of Rile was closed.
He was startled and looked back, only to see that the "Jin" flag at the top of the city had been taken off and replaced with the "Liang" flag.
The sergeants also made an uproar one after another.
Zhao Shuang rushed to the city and shouted: "Who can close the city gate?"
The former chief secretary of the shogunate, Ma Li, cupped his hands and said, "Master, do you know why I didn't close the city gate until you left?"
Zhao Shuang was stunned.
Ma Li smiled and said, "I am the head of Lanchi before you. I was lucky enough to get promoted, but I don't know how to cherish my hard-won official position. I am trying to save you."
Zhao Shuang was a little angry when he heard the words "progress with luck".
He was indeed the county magistrate of Lanchi County under Xijun County. When he led his troops out for training, sergeant Zhang Bing found a jade seal in a clear stream and presented it to him.
At that time, Zhang was in charge of the government and thought he was destined. He was overjoyed and transferred Zhao Shuang to the shogunate as an official. During the Zhang Mao era, he returned to Xijun as the prefect for five years.
On the other hand, Ma Li, along with Bei Gongchun, Zhang Zuan and Yin, joined Luoyang twenty years ago, so his qualifications are not old.
Until Zhang Mao's time, Ma had always held the real power position of chief clerk. However, after Zhang Mao's death, Zhang Jun was unwilling to appoint him because of his old age, so Ma Li had no choice but to return to his hometown in Xijun.
When he thought of "Kitagong Jun", Zhao Shuang was horrified and asked: "Kitagong Saburo is back?"
Ma Li replied: "The Lord has been in charge of Xijun for several years and has been very courteous to me. I won't hide some things from you. Beigong Sanlang is already the general of Daliang Xizhonglang. If he has made some military exploits, he can open a palace to eliminate me.
Emperor Liang was very virtuous. He still remembered the old friendship after so many years, which made people's hearts unbreakable.
Already. In the past, when I came to Luoyang to aid, I had met Emperor Liang several times. At that time, I saw a yellow dragon rising in the sky behind him, and I knew that my destiny had returned. Now I would like to raise the West County to dedicate it to save the people.
Field swordsman. If the prince is willing to change his ways, how about counting your share?"
Zhao Shuang was silent for a long time.
Just when Ma Li was waiting impatiently, he heard him say: "Please Ma Gong, please give me a few Liang flags, and then I will return to justice and rush to Wuwei to obey the orders of General Daliang."
After that, he ordered the sergeants to throw away all the common flags.
The mackerel was stunned and sighed: "The next generation is to be feared, the next generation is to be feared."
Thousands of soldiers outside the city were dizzy for a while.
Before going out, it was still the Jin army. After just a few steps, it became the Liang army?
If we take a few more steps, will we become the Prussian army again? Or simply the Liang army?
Chapter completed!