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Chapter 24 Troubled Times

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    The heavy snow did stop soon. Yan Xing declined the banquet he had not attended yet on the excuse of feeling cold and returned to the training of soldiers and horses in the winter. Due to the heavy snow in the winter, the training in the camp also required  changed.

    First, Yan Xing personally led a team to inspect the military camp to see if any of his soldiers were suffering from hunger or cold. He also took the time to check on the recovery status of the wounded soldiers who had sneaked into the third auxiliary with him.

    A few days ago, I did not immediately start these military affairs because of the banquet. Fortunately, Yan Shun has always done a good job in these matters. He is not only serious and responsible for the matters that Yan Xing gave him for joint training before leaving, but also shows no favoritism.  After winter came, he got the cold clothes and bedding of the soldiers below from the quartermaster of the Selected Front Army and distributed them in time. Yan Shun, the newly transferred 200 men and horses, properly arranged them, treated them equally, and comforted them.  Military morale.

    However, Yan Xing had to do the next thing himself. First, he reorganized the two hundred newly transferred troops. Because there were two more troops in the tun, Yan Xing, who had always attached great importance to cavalry, set up a front tun.  The cavalry establishment was composed of hundreds of soldiers with superb riding skills selected from the newly transferred troops and the original troops.

    Then, the old, young and weak among the newly transferred troops were separated and organized into a harem. Since the number was less than 60, they were temporarily handed over to Yan Shun as the leader, and deputies were selected from the newly transferred troops.

    As for the original three tuns, the number of people was replenished. The left tun was still led by Yan Shun, the right tun was handed over to Ma Lin, and Yan Xing personally led the middle tun and fifty personal guards and cavalry. Yan Xing was also led by Yan Xing.  Take it with you to teach and practice.

    At this point, the song Yan Xing can be said to have been formally formed. What is lacking is the running-in and training of each village.

    The queues and marches that Yan Xing valued most were not carried out in large part due to the snow in the winter. Training was only conducted on the days when the snow stopped. At night, he still summoned his military officials to give military lectures. This time the scope was expanded to include team rates.  This layer.

    Of course, in his spare time, Yan Xing would also bring the good wine he bought from the city and invite Li and Zhao to go out on the snow to look for plum blossoms and drink and have fun.

    The snow has been falling, but Yan Xing has never forgotten in his heart the expectations of his father and younger sister and his own ambitions when he left home. He has not forgotten the difficulty of his horse falling to death and the cluttered road when crossing Longshan, nor has he forgotten to sneak into Sanfu's back.  Being in a dangerous enemy situation and sleeping in the enemy's arms, he will not forget the Huqi of the Han army who rushed towards him screaming in the wilderness.

    All these are prompting Yan Xing not to relax and to wait for the coming of spring next year.

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    As time passed, the Han Empire soon entered the fifth year after the chaos of the Taiping Dao Uprising.  The arrival of the fifth year of Zhongping and the coming of spring brought the Han Empire not a gentle spring, but an aggressive crisis and war.

    First, the Yellow Turban bandits Guo Da and others rose up in the Baibo Valley of Hedong and invaded the counties in Taiyuan and Hedong. They caused shocks in Luoyang, Kyoto. The imperial court hurriedly ordered all counties and counties to send troops to suppress the rebellion, but it was not quelled for a long time.  Immediately afterwards, the Huns, who had rebelled again in the winter of the fourth year of Zhongping, attacked and killed Zhang Yi, the governor of Bingzhou. The Huns' cavalry once again ravaged all parts of Bingzhou, leaving every county and county in ruins. The Han court had to  On the one hand, he ordered all the counties in Bingzhou to guard the city, and on the other hand, he sent envoys to appease these fierce Huns.

    In this series of events, this is the second memorial that the Han Dynasty received after Liangzhou regarding the death of Fang Bo from Yizhou.

    However, it seems that God has no intention of letting the Han Empire, which is already riddled with all kinds of diseases, take a breather. At the end of May, a report came from Yizhou. Yizhou thieves Ma Xiang, Zhao Zhi and others raised an army in Mianzhu, named themselves Yellow Turbans, and killed the Yizhou governor.  He attacked Bajun and Qianwei, and destroyed the three counties within ten months. There were tens of thousands of people, claiming to be the emperor.

    This is the third memorial that the Han court has received about the death of a governor in a state. Moreover, the "Emperor" in Youzhou in the north has not yet been settled, and another "Emperor" has emerged in Yizhou in the south. This kind of pressure is coming one after another.  This forced the emperor and dignitaries of the current dynasty to become extremely anxious. If the rebellions in various places could not be quelled, the world would really fall apart and there would be princes all over the place.

    However, the "Emperor" in the south is easy to deal with after all. After all, they are just the remnants of the Yellow Turbans at best. In the first year of Zhongping, hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans were beaten to ashes by the imperial army, and built one after another in the capital to show off their martial arts.

    But the "Emperor" in the north was much more difficult to deal with. In the second year of Zhongping, Zhang Wen was determined to conquer the Liangzhou rebels and prepared to recruit 3,000 Wuhuan cavalry from Youzhou. As a result, Wuhuan's troops arrived in Jixian  At that time, most of the Wuhuan cavalry defected and returned to the Wuhuan tribe because their food and wages were in arrears.  And Zhang Chun, who was accompanying the army, was defeated because Zhang Wen did not let him command the Wuhuan troops.With a grudge, he fled to the Wuhuan tribe with Zhang Ju, a former Taishan prefect who was from the same county, and formed an alliance with Qiu Liju, the leader of the Wuhuan tribe, and sent troops to rob Ji County. They were unstoppable along the way and killed the Wuhuan school captain Gong Qi.  Chou, Liu Zheng, the governor of Youbeiping County, Yang Zhong, the governor of Liaodong County, and others gathered a tribe of more than 100,000 people and stationed them in Feiru County.

    Later, Zhang Ju was called emperor, and Zhang Chun was called General Mitian and King Anding.  They issued an official notice to all states and counties, declaring that Zhang Ju would replace the Eastern Han Dynasty, demanding that the emperor abdicate on that day, ordering officials from various places to welcome Zhang Ju, and led the Wuhuan cavalry to attack Lueqing, Xu, You, and Jizhou, lure wolves into the house, and burn to death  Loot.  Facing the fierce Wuhuan cavalry, the Han court not only urged the cavalry commander Gongsun Zan to speed up the attack, but also had to secretly order Liu Yu to lure the Wuhuan tribe leaders with thick gold, accelerating the trend of internal divisions in the rebel army.

    Of course, the Han court had completely lost the confidence to quell the rebels and bandits swarming in various places by relying solely on the states and counties.  To fight against foreign forces, we must first strengthen the interior. Although Liu Hong, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, who had been sitting in the Ming Dynasty for twenty years, did a lot of stupid things, at this crisis point of internal and external troubles, he could no longer be willful.  So Liu Hong made up his mind and used the money he got from selling his official position in Xiyuan to form a Central Army that was independent of the five schools of the Northern Army, and set up eight lieutenants, headed by the emperor Liu Hong.  The confidant Xiao Huangmen Jian Shuo is in charge, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the two heroes who will dominate the north and south of the river in the future, are also among them.

    After forming the new army, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was also very ambitious for a while, dreaming of "holding the emperor's sword in hand and defeating the thieves in the world", so he held a large-scale review of the new army in Pingtang, Luoyang.  Looking at the new Xiyuan army with bright armor and powerful soldiers, Liu Hong suddenly became elated. Under the flattery of the eunuchs, he even wanted to fly into the sky, pointing at the army to show off to the ministers of the DPRK.  Fortunately, there were still people in the court who knew the soldiers. Gai Xun, who was seeking to challenge the captain, came out and said, "I have heard that the late king was so virtuous that he did not observe the soldiers. Now that the invaders are far away and they are close to the enemy, it is not enough to show Guo Yi.  The saying "Wu Er" admonished the emperor Liu Hong for his foolish behavior purely for showing off.

    And the facts are indeed as Gai Xun said. This kind of showoff behavior by Emperor Liu Hong did not demonstrate military ethics at all. Just after the military parade ended, bad news spread to the court.

    Qingzhou, which was originally a small-scale uprising due to the Tang and Zhou rebellions on Taiping Road, was hit by successive natural and man-made disasters in recent years, and the long-suppressed volcano finally inevitably erupted.  The Yellow Turbans were everywhere in Qingzhou and spread across the prefectures and counties. The turmoil also spread to Xuzhou, causing the Yellow Turbans in Xuzhou to take advantage of the situation and respond. As a result, several states in the east of the empire also fell into turmoil.

    Of course, compared to these one after another chaos, what caused the Han court the most headache was the rebels from Liangzhou.  As autumn entered, Guo Guo and Han Sui led troops to invade Sanfu on a large scale. Yuxi flying cavalry from Chang'an to Luoyang came one after another, facing each other. Moreover, the scale and momentum of the rebels this time were greater than those before.  They are much larger. The strength of the three auxiliaries alone is already irresistible. If they cannot send troops to support in time and allow the rebel troops to capture Chang'an or destroy the imperial tomb, then the Han Dynasty will really be lost.  A fig leaf.

    But who should be used as general when sending troops?  Taiwei Zhang Wen was impeached and removed from office when Liangzhou was in chaos again last year. Now it is extremely difficult to select a suitable candidate from the court.  You must know that there are many arrogant and capable generals in the Han army currently stationed in Youfufeng. In the second year of Zhongping, Zhang Wen, who was born in a well-known family and ranked among the three nobles, was promoted to a general with the dignity of a chariot and cavalry general and the power of a fake festival yue.  Which of the generals below is not obedient and obeys the general's orders?  Only Dong Zhuo, who was the Polu general at the time, did not give Zhang Wen a good look, and even implicitly ridiculed Zhang Wen in his words for Zhang Wen, who did not know how to fight. As a result, Dong Zhuo's reputation among the three auxiliary Han armies greatly increased, and he was known for his arrogance and domineering.

    The subsequent development of things just confirmed Dong Zhuo's sarcasm. The various Han armies that advanced were cut off from food and grass in Yuzhong City, and they were pursued by Qiang and Hu cavalry during their hasty retreat. Only Dong Zhuo's army returned in full force.

    Therefore, the person sent must be someone who knows how to fight and is capable of subduing powerful generals like Dong Zhuo. After much deliberation, the emperor and dignitaries in the court could only re-activate Huangfu Song, who was demoted in the second year of Zhongping.  He was granted the title of General of the Left, and more than 20,000 soldiers and horses from the five schools of the Northern Army, Sanhe Knights, and prefectures and counties were mobilized. He immediately received orders to attack the Liangzhou rebels who invaded Sanfu. At the same time, Dong Zhuo, who was granted the title of former general, was returned to Huangfu Song.  under his command.

    Just when the Han court was worried about choosing the leader, the invading Liangzhou coalition forces continued to capture cities and territories after entering Sanfu, and successively captured various cities in Qianxian, Qianyang, and Yongxian counties. The troops advanced directly to the city of Chencang, while the coalition's rangers  They even went deep into the Meiyang and Wugong front lines, and had a brief battle with the Han army's scouts. Dong Zhuo, who was stationed in Youfufeng, decisively gave up the city to the west. At this time, it was absolutely thankless to go out of the city and fight with the menacing Liangzhou soldiers and horses.  thing.  While he was shrinking his troops to defend various military strongholds, he was sending urgent messengers to the east to ask for help.

    Faced with this imminent crisis, there is a doomsday scene in Sanfu, where prices are soaring and families are fleeing eastward.

    The three assistants were really shocked by this, and the whole city of Chang'an was shocked three times a day!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The company sent an urgent messenger asking for help.

    Faced with this imminent crisis, there is a doomsday scene in Sanfu, where prices are soaring and families are fleeing eastward.

    The three assistants were really shocked by this, and the whole city of Chang'an was shocked three times a day!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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