Chapter 17 Chapter Six Murong Xiongfeng

In October 345 AD, in order to eradicate the remaining forces of Goguryeo in the Liaodong area, Murong Hao ordered the 22-year-old Murong Ke to attack Goguryeo again. Murong Ke led his army to conquer Nansu (now the confluence of Dongsuzi River and Hunhe River in Fushun City, Liaoning Province), and sent troops to stay behind.Later Zhao Wang Shihu saw that the Yan State was powerful, so he sent Deng Heng, General Zhengdong, to lead an army to Le'an to accumulate food, grass and equipment, and prepare to attack the Yan State.Murong Hao immediately appointed Murong Ba as General Pingdi to guard Tuhe.After Murong Ba came to Yihe, he assembled his army to prepare for war and confronted the Hou Zhao army.Deng Heng saw that the Yan army was strong, so he had no choice but to stand still.

In the first month of the following year, Murong Hao sent his eldest son Murong Jun, generals Murong Yugen and Murong Ke to lead Qingqi raids on Fuyu.This is the first time that Murong Jun and the Murong Ke brothers have joined forces. Murong Jun is in charge of the Chinese army's planning and dispatching, and Murong Ke is in charge of the front line.The cavalry of the Yan army broke through the capital of Fuyu in one fell swoop, and captured more than 50,000 Fuyu kings, ministers and people.Fuyu country never recovered from the fall. In September 348 A.D., Murong Hao died of illness, and his eldest son Murong Jun came to the throne.During Murong Hao's reign, Yan State successively defeated Duanbu, Yuwenbu, and Goguryeo, and unified the entire territory of Liaodong.At the same time, Murong Hao also attached great importance to cultural governance. He settled refugees, set up overseas Chinese counties, promoted talents, gave clear rewards and punishments, and attached great importance to education, which made Yan's national strength rapidly increase and became the only powerful country in the north that could compete with Hou Zhao.

Among Murong Hao's 15 sons, the eldest son, Murong Jiao, and the third son, Murong Zun, died young without leaving much behind. Among the other dozen sons, the most famous were Murong Jun, Murong Ke, Murong Ba and Murong De.These four people are not only capable, but all of them are heroic and extraordinary: Murong Xin: Young and tall, beautiful, eight feet long, heroic and magnanimous. Murong Han: He has a majestic personality, multiple strategies, ape-armed shooting, and extraordinary physical strength. Murong Hao: Longyan teeth, seven feet and eight inches in length.Xiongyi multi-strategy, advocating Confucian classics, good at astronomy.

Murong Jun: He is eight feet and two inches long, with a burly appearance. He has a wide range of books and has a good understanding of civil and military affairs. Murong Ke: Fifteen years old, eight feet and seven inches in length, with a handsome appearance and serious fortitude. Murong Ba: Shaoqiyi has a body, seven feet and seven inches in length, with hands hanging down to knees. Murong De: Eight feet and two inches long, majestic in appearance, with a sun horn, a moon and a heavy text on his forehead.He has a wide range of books, a clear and cautious nature, and many talents. If calculated according to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, one foot is about 23 centimeters now, the height of the Murong Jun brothers is about:

Murong Jun: 8 feet 2 inches in length, about 1.89 meters Murong Ke: 8 feet 7 inches in length, about 2 meters (speechless) Murong Ba: 7 feet 7 inches in length, about 1.77 meters Murong De: 8 feet 2 inches in length, about 1.89 meters Well, this is a family that can team up to play basketball.Generally speaking, tall boys who play basketball can attract the attention of the opposite sex; what's more, the brothers of the Murong family play not balls, but battles.Don't be obsessed with brother, brother's name is Murong. But what is strange is that when Murong Hao was alive, his favorite son was not the tallest Murong Ke, who was capable of both civil and martial arts, but Murong Ba, who was not tall (relatively speaking) and had a strong personality.Murong Hao liked Murong Ba, so Murong Jun who succeeded him did not like Murong Ba.Not only did he not like it, but he also played a lot of tricks, and finally changed Murong Ba's name to Murong Chui.However, this Murong Ba, who was depressed in the first half of his life, is the most tenacious, the most accomplished, and the most legendary among the brothers (only Murong De lived longer than him).

In 349 A.D., the second year after Murong Hao's death, Emperor Shihu of Later Zhao died of illness.The two monarchs of ethnic minorities who ruled the roost in northern China passed away one after another, which brought about a completely different situation: Murong Hao focused on cultivating successors in his later years. Most of his brothers, nephews and nephews were able to recruit good fighters. After the unification of Liaodong, the national power is booming; Shihu seized the throne by a coup d'état. Attack each other and compete for the throne. The Shi family's infighting can be described in one word: extinction of humanity.

Shi Hu's son, Shi Sui, was dissatisfied with his father's doting on his brothers Shi Xuan and Shi Tao, so he hated Shi Hu to the bone.After Shi Hu found out, he arrested Li Yan, Shi Sui's subordinate.Li Yan confessed truthfully: Shi Sui was going to kill Shi Xuan first, then Shi Hu, and make himself king.Shi Hu was furious, executed Li Yan and his family, and imprisoned Shi Xi in the East Palace.After Shi Sui was imprisoned, he was still aggrieved.In a fit of rage, Shi Hu ordered Shi Sui, his wife, and family members to be killed, and then stuffed into a coffin, and more than 200 of Shi Sui's henchmen were executed.After Shi Sui's death, Shi Huli made Shi Xuan the prince and his mother Du Zhaoyi the queen.

However, Shi Hu's old problem has happened again - whoever is appointed as the prince depends on who doesn't like it, and then he favors another son, Shi Tao.Like Shi Xuan, Shi Xuan is also very dissatisfied with Shi Hu's "like the new and dislike the old", and plans to get rid of Shi Tao.As a result, Shi's fratricidal fratricide intensified. Soon, Shi Xuan sent assassins to assassinate Shi Tao.To say it was an assassination, it was better to say it was a torture: the assassin cut off Shi Tao's hands and feet, stabbed his eyes, cut open his stomach, and tortured him to death.Afterwards, Shi Xuan also took the initiative to report the news of Shi Tao's death to Shi Hu (probably to stimulate Shi Hu severely, and to see his grief expression after the loss of his son).

When Shi Hu heard about Shi Tao's sudden death, he passed out on the spot (it can be seen that he really liked this son better).After being rescued, Shi Hu planned to go out of the palace to attend his son's funeral.Sikong and Li Nong reminded him that the person who killed Shi Tao is likely to be someone close to you, and now is an extraordinary time, it is best not to go out immediately ("Those who harm Duke Qin may be inside the Xiaoqiang, and they are very worried, so they can't go out." "Book of Jin Shi Jilong Zaiji"). Although Shi Hu was brutal, he was not a fool, once reminded, he immediately guessed something.However, Shi Hu still showed his extraordinary side: he went to the funeral for Shi Tao with thousands of guards, but he did not shed a single tear, but walked into the mourning hall with a smile, causing people to lift the cover on the stone. The white cloth on Tao's corpse laughed and left.At this moment, Shi Hu should be out of anger, so angry that he can only laugh at himself - the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, the blue is better than the blue!

Shi Hu is Shi Hu, after laughing, he didn't attack right away.It wasn't until someone reported to him that it was Shi Xuan who murdered Shi Tao, that Shi Hu decided to use more drastic measures: You are cruel, and I am more cruel than you; how do you treat your brother and my son? so to you! Shi Xuan's end has come. Shi Hu sent people to arrest Shi Xuan, and then used actions to prove what it means to be ginger or old hot, what is cruelty without limits--he first had someone pierce Shi Xuan's cheek with an iron ring, and locked him firmly. Then he poured his meal into the big wooden trough and let him eat with his cheek pierced by the iron ring.

Seeing that his son was like a pig and dog, Shi Hu didn't have the slightest bit of resentment in his eyes, but licked the long sword that killed Shi Tao with his tongue, licking off the blood on it bit by bit, as if bit by bit for Shi Tao. Tao washed away the grievance of the tragic death, and let out a howl like a beast. Soon, an earthen platform was added outside the north gate of Yecheng. On the earthen platform was a bracket made of wooden poles, bamboo poles, wheels and ropes, and hay and firewood were piled under the bracket.Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of people, Hao Zhi and Liu Ba, the two eunuchs most trusted by Shi Tao during his lifetime, appeared in the sight of everyone by pulling a man's hair and tongue, and then walked along the ladder, The man pulled up the platform and tied him up with ropes. This person is Shi Xuan.He would never have imagined that the method he used to kill Shi Tao back then would fall on him exactly the same way now. This is called: use the other's way, and give it back to the other body.Gusu Murong is just a cottage. Under round after round of torture, Shi Xuan was dying.But, the show isn't over yet.People with torches surrounded the earthen platform and began to light a fire on the firewood.Along with the blazing fire, Shi Xuan was burned to ashes.It's bad news.However, Shi Xuan hadn't played enough. He asked people to scatter Shi Xuan's ashes on the streets in and out of Yecheng, and let people trample on them wantonly.Shi Hu was still angry, and ordered to kill Shi Xuan's wife and son, torn apart hundreds of Shi Xuan's guards and eunuchs, and threw their bodies into the Zhang River; State. These assigned guards were tortured on the way, and finally a large-scale uprising broke out in Yongcheng (now Fengxiang, Shaanxi).Under the leadership of Liang Du, this uprising team of more than 10,000 people was invincible. When they attacked Chang'an, there were more than 100,000 people.Liang Du claimed to be the Great General of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After defeating General Zhao Shi Bao, he went east out of Tongguan, defeated the army of Da Sima Li Nong, and came to Luoyang. Seeing that the righteous army was powerful, Shi Hu mobilized a large army, and at the same time joined forces with Fu Hong, the leader of the Di tribe, and Yao Yizhong, the leader of the Qiang tribe, to suppress it.Finally, Liang Du was defeated and killed in Xingyang.Although the uprising failed, it shook the foundation of Zhao's rule.In particular, Fu Hong, the leader of the Di tribe, and Yao Yizhong, the leader of the Qiang tribe, took the opportunity to expand their power in the process of suppressing the uprising. One more thing: Fu Hong had a son named Fu Xiong, Fu Xiong had a son named Fu Jian; Yao Yizhong had a son named Yao Xiang, and Yao Xiang had a younger brother named Yao Chang. In 349 A.D., a generation of crazy demon Shihu died of illness, ending his tyrannical life. After Shi Hu's death, a large-scale civil strife broke out in Hou Zhao. In order to fight for the throne, his sons inherited the "fine traditions" of their father and brother. A year later, a Han man saw these Jie people, you kill me, I kill you, endlessly, so he killed them all, and seized the post-Zhao regime. This person is Shi Hu's adopted son, Ran Min, whose real name is Ran Min. Ran Min, a ferocious man with blood flowing all over his body to avenge the Han people, raised his butcher knife. Closer to home. In 349 AD, Shi Hu died and Shi Shi came to the throne.In May of the same year, Ran Min supported Shi Zun's coup to overthrow Shi Shi, on the condition that he be crowned prince (I think Ran Min is a little naive, people who kill people are all surnamed Shi anyway, why give you a Han person?).At first, Shi Zun agreed; after it was done, Shi Zun made Shi Yan the prince and left Ran Min aside.Ran Min was very dissatisfied. At this time, someone felt that Ran Min was too powerful and it would be a disaster to keep him, so he suggested that Shi Zun kill Ran Min.Shi Zun let Ran Min feel guilty, so he hesitated, so he asked his brother Shi Jian and his mother Zheng Cherry to discuss it.This discussion led to a problem: Zheng Cherry objected on the spot, and Ran Min had merit in supporting him, so he could not be killed; after the meeting, Shi Jian made a small report and tipped off to Ran Min (he probably had been staring at the throne for a long time). So Ran Min couped again, and he joined forces with Han generals Li Nong and Wang Ji to kill Zheng Cherry and Shi Zun, and made Shi Jian emperor.Ran Min was appointed as a general and began to take control of Zhao Daquan.After Ran Min came to power, his attitude towards the Hu people became less friendly. First, he purged a group of Hu people's officials, and appointed a large number of Han officials, and assigned them to important positions. This move by Ran Min aroused vigilance and strong opposition from the nobles of the Hu people. They worried that they would be retaliated by Ran Min if they were too harsh on the Han people in the past, so they gathered heavy troops in various places.The local Jie clan forces headed by Shi Zhi have joined forces with Fu Hong's Di clan forces and Yao Yizhong's Qiang clan forces to encircle Ye City controlled by Ran Min. If you don't back down, we will kill you Stance.The interior of Yecheng was also about to rain. The nobles of the Jie clan pointed their spearheads at Ran Min and Li Nong, and launched several mutinies in succession, but were suppressed by Ran Min. Those who participated in the mutiny were all suppressed by Ran Min execute.In the end, even Shi Jian, who was supported by Ran Min, felt that Ran Min had too much power, and wanted to kill him, but didn't want to be noticed by Ran Min again. Ran Min felt that as long as the Hu people were in power, he would be a thorn in their side, and it would be difficult for the Han people to change their fate of being enslaved and tortured.In order to change his situation and to give the Han people in the Central Plains a way out, Ran Min was furious and promulgated the "Decree to Kill Hu Hu" and "Warning for Hu Hu": "The barbarians have been rebelling against the Central Plains for decades, and now I will punish them. If you can join us in the fight, you can send troops! The barbarians have humiliated the Han family for decades, killed my people, and seized my ancestral temple. Now I am here to punish you! Those who commit crimes against me will die, those who kill our people will die, and all the Hu Kuang in the world will be killed to restore the foundation of the Han family. All Han people in the world are obliged to kill Hu dogs! Ran Min was ordered by the way of heaven, and I hereby tell the world this omen!" Ran Min also ordered: "The six barbarians inside and outside, whoever dares to be called a soldier will be killed!" The blade rises, and the earth is red. Shi Jian was also beheaded by Ran Min to sacrifice the flag. The first is Yecheng.Ran Min ordered to close the four gates of Yecheng, and launched a massacre of the Hu people in the city (mainly Jie and Xiongnu, also including Qiang, Di, Xianbei, Badi, etc.), blood flowed in the city, and more than 200,000 people And die.Ran Min still didn't think it was enough, so he asked people to drag all these corpses and throw them to the beasts raised by Shihu... Second is place.Han people from all over the country launched an unprecedented national revenge against the Hu people. Men, women, old and young, no matter how high or low, as long as they are Hu people, they will be killed!Even those Han Chinese with high nose bridges and big beards were mistaken for Hu people and killed. At the beginning of 350 AD, Ran Min proclaimed himself emperor in Yedu, replaced Hou Zhao, established the Ran Wei regime, and changed his reign name to Yongxing. Controlling violence with violence completely ignited the raging volcano of Hu-Han contradiction.Soon, another son of Shi Hu, Shi Zhi, also proclaimed himself emperor in Xiangguo (now Xingtai, Hebei), and restored the post Zhao regime.All of a sudden, groups of Husbands and Hus in Houzhao came together and responded one after another.Later, Zhao Ruyin, Wang Shikun, Zhang Ju, Wang Lang and others led an army of 70,000 to crusade against Ran Min.At this time, Ran Min's Han army was far less than the surrounding Hu army, and Ran Wei's actual occupation area was only Yecheng and its surrounding areas. It was in such an unfavorable situation with strong enemies around and no foreign aid that Ran Min started his own performance: According to historical records, Ran Min was "eight feet tall, good at strategy, unparalleled in courage, and unprecedented in attack and battle." Every time he fought, he would ride his beloved Zhulong horse to the front.The lightest weapons for cavalry on horseback are bows and arrows and sabers - it is normal to chop with a knife in one hand; with a bow in one hand and an arrow in one hand, and to control the horse with both feet, shooting arrows on horseback requires very skilled skills; Holding long weapons such as spears, spears, maces, and battle axes with both hands, they fight on horseback. Generally speaking, they are either powerful warriors or masters of superior force. Ran Min was more fierce than them. He not only used long weapons, but also used two pieces at once: his left hand held a double-edged spear (with openings on both sides of the spear tip), and his right hand held a double-hooked halberd, one in each hand. With both feet controlling the horse, he is extremely brave.With such a fierce man leading the charge, coupled with the hatred for the barbarians, the Han cavalry under Ran Min's command were all desperate to kill the enemy, and they were always invincible, with one enemy a hundred. In the era when Hu rode to the Central Plains on horseback, Ran Min and his Hanzu soldiers under his command used extraordinary courage and boldness to repeatedly create miracles of war with fewer victories. Made many military miracles.After Ran Min established the country, he experienced several vicious battles, each of which was won with a small number of enemies: In the first battle, 3,000 Han cavalry attacked the Huns camp at night, chased and killed more than a hundred miles, and beheaded 30,000; In the second battle, 5,000 Han cavalry were used, and 70,000 Hu cavalry were defeated; In the third battle, with 70,000 Han troops and tens of thousands of rebel troops, more than 300,000 Hu allied forces were defeated; In the fourth battle, with more than ten thousand Han troops, they were defeated first and then won, annihilating 40,000 Hu troops; In the fifth battle, with 60,000 Han troops, more than 100,000 Qiang and Di coalition forces were wiped out; It can be said that the country of Ran Wei was established in the flames of war and grew stronger in the flames of war.Under the leadership of Ran Min, Wei Jun not only showed the prestige of the Han family's iron cavalry, but also let Han people everywhere see the hope of turning themselves into masters.In the few years after Shi Hu's death, wars were fought almost every month in Hebei, and people were killed. Han people from all over the country revolted under the call of the "Killing Hu Order" and went to the Jie, Xiongnu, Qiang, Di, etc. in the Central Plains. The barbarian forces raised their butcher knives. Here, one thing that needs to be added is, don't think that only Han kills Hu, and ignore Hu killing Han. In the vast land of Hou Zhao, the land that Ran Min can control is only the surrounding area of ​​Yecheng to the north of the Yellow River, which is the core ruling area of ​​Hou Zhao. Zhao or respond to Ran Wei's local warlord control.Among these warlords, there are Hu and Han, and most of them are Hu.Therefore, on the whole, the central region is killing the Hu, and the surrounding areas are killing the Han—whoever controls the army is killing people.Ran Min killed Hu to survive, while Hu people killed Han as a habit, and it was revenge for Ran Min's resistance! Accompanied by the killing, there was a wave of refugees.This wave of refugees is a bit similar to the current Spring Festival travel: Back then, in order to develop the central Gyeonggi area, Shihu forcibly moved a large number of people to Xiangguo and Yecheng; After the war, the Han people and other Hu people who wanted to survive fled Hebei one after another, wanting to return to their hometowns, forming a huge wave of returning home. While the tide of returning home was flowing from the center to the local area, the Hu army that supported Hou Zhao was rushing from all directions to the Gyeonggi area to "King Qin".Before they met Ran Min's army, they ran head-on into the wave of returning home.The result can be imagined - those who can be robbed are robbed, and those who can be killed are killed.Those post-Zhao troops who went north from the south line would naturally not let go of the Han people who wanted to go from the north to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.A large number of people died not on the battlefield, but on the way home. What we see is often the result of the disappearance of the Jie people as a nation and the collapse of the Xiongnu. We think that only the Han killed the Hu, and ignored the Hu who killed the Han.In fact, the number of Hu killing Han will only be more than that of Han killing Hu. In addition, the Hou Zhao established by Shi Hu was a hierarchical society: the Jie people were the first class, the Huns were the second class, the Hu people such as Di, Qiang, and Xianbei were the third class, and the Han people were the fourth class.His death, combined with the cannibalism of his sons, has caused the entire country to spin out of control, and the various clans are re-finding their place, fighting for survival and status.Ran Min is a Han Chinese, so he conformed to the interests of the Han people, so he had the order to kill Hu. Before Ran Min killed Hu, there were as many as five or six million Hu people in the Central Plains, occupying the entire Yellow River Basin; after Ran Min overthrew Zhao, millions of Hu people were expelled by the Central Plains Han people and had to move back to Longxi and Hetao and other places, and even more distant Central Asia.This great ethnic migration forced by Ran Min resulted in the death of more than one million Hu people in the Central Plains. During the migration, hundreds of thousands of Hu people died of hunger, cold and mutual plunder. These Hu people who successfully returned to the northwest frontier later established political power there (many of the sixteen countries came from this); while the number of Hu people in the Central Plains decreased greatly, the proportion of Han people began to increase again.After experiencing the bloody revenge of the Han people, the Hu people no longer dared to underestimate the Han people, and began to cooperate with the Han people, using the Han people to engage in production and economic development, and gradually formed a situation where the Hu people fought wars and the Han people cultivated the land. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the war between the Eastern Wei and the Western Wei greatly reduced the population of the Xianbei (Xianbei after fusion). The two countries had to use a large number of Han troops to supplement their military resources. In order to win them over, they finally formed Hu-Han mixed clans like Yang Jian and Li Yuan.This is something. Under Ran Min's butcher knife, Shi Zun, Shi Jian, Shi Kun, Shi Chong, and Shi Pan were wiped out, and the power of the Jie clan was almost completely wiped out.Of Shi Hu's fourteen sons, two were executed by himself; six died by cannibalism;The Skynet is not leaked, and the sins committed by Shihu are finally retribution on the descendants. During the Warring States period, Yan and Zhao were fighting each other, and the conservative and short-sighted Yan State was repeatedly bullied by the blunt and tough Zhao State; if Zhao State was not in the place of the Four Wars, Yan State would probably be doomed before the arrival of the Qin Army.Now, after Ran Min killed Hu, there was civil strife in Houzhao, and the land of Yanzhao resurged.However, this time, Ran Min, who represented the Han nationality in the Central Plains, was surrounded by many Hu tribe forces, and the one who planned to take advantage of the fire to bully others was Yan State, which had just unified Liaodong. In 352 A.D., Ran Min led his army to conquer Xiangguo and wiped out the remnants of Later Zhao.At this time, Ran Min also realized the strength of Yan State in the north, coupled with years of wars, and the shortage of food and grass, so he went north from Xiang State, while collecting food in Changshan, Zhongshan and other places, while checking the terrain, in case the Yan army took the opportunity to go south. .Ran Min's actions really alarmed Yan Wang Murong Jun. In April, the country of Yan, which had successively seized the entire territory of Youzhou, sent troops.The general in charge of Yan State is Murong Ke.Ran Min and Murong Ke, the two most outstanding generals at that time, finally had to compete face to face.The place where the two armies met was called Anxi. However, this contest was very unfair from the very beginning - the Yan army commanded by Murong Ke was 100,000, all of them were cavalry; while Ran Min led only an infantry of more than 10,000, and the strength of the two sides was very different. And it was fighting on the plains.Anyone who has some common sense of war in the cold weapon era will think that Ran Min will lose when he sees such a comparison of strength. Ran Min's generals Dong Run and Zhang Wen also thought so.They felt that only 10,000 infantry were no match for the Yan army's cavalry on the plain, so they persuaded Ran Min to avoid their edge, lure the enemy deep, and then look for opportunities to attack.It stands to reason that this suggestion is quite feasible, but it depends on who the commander is.Ran Min was very angry when he saw that the general wanted to retreat before the fight started, and said angrily: "I just want to lead this team to sweep Youzhou down and kill Murong Jun; the real master hasn't met yet, but Murong came here Ke, then be afraid of being like this, what people will think of us!" This battle must be fought.But Ran Min, and his officials are even worse—after Situ Liu Mao heard that Ran Min was determined to go his own way and prepare for a decisive battle, he said to another official named Lang Kai: "My lord will not return this trip. Why sit and wait for the slaughter!" It means that our boss will definitely not be able to come back this time, why should we sit and wait for the Yan people to kill us! Therefore, in order not to fall into the hands of the barbarians, these two very personal ministers both committed suicide. Ran Min was unmoved. In his opinion, as long as he is a Hu, no matter whether he is Jie, Qiang, Di, or Xianbei, he should be killed!Fighting the Hu people is his mission, and it is the duty of every Han soldier.Therefore, regardless of everyone's opposition, he resolutely led his army to Anxi, preparing for a decisive battle with the Yan army here. Soon, Murong Ke also led his army to Anxi.Murong Ke did not underestimate the enemy. He knew very well that the man who was close at hand was the most valiant Han Chinese in the North;Murong Ke was very careful. He sent several cavalry successively to have a tentative fight with the Wei army on the plain outside Anxi City.But the result of the battle was that the Wei army won ten battles and ten victories! This has never happened since Murong Ke led the army, and it has never happened to the Yan Army for decades! A Han infantry has defeated the Hu cavalry ten times in a row in the field battle on the plain. What a mighty and combat power this is! It's a pity that the two brothers who committed suicide did not see the power of Wei Jun's ten battles and ten victories.They didn't think about what is a Jedi counterattack, what is not to abandon, not to give up.I think, if it wasn't for the lack of troops, Ran Min is fully capable of driving the Yan army back to Youzhou - in the face of the purest force, even if Murong Ke has a thousand tricks, what's the use of it! Fortunately, the Wei army only has more than 10,000 people, so after losing ten games in a row, the loss of the Yan army is not too great; however, the morale of the Yan army has been destroyed by the Wei army.If the two armies are facing each other, if there is no morale, no matter how many people there are, it will be in vain.The strongest point of the Wei army is its morale; the source of morale is Ran Min's force, determination, and the deep hatred of the Han people towards the Hu people! Murong Ke is a very qualified opponent, he immediately did two things: the first one, asking for help.The troops on the front line are insufficient, and the soldiers in the front are afraid of the enemy, so they ask Murong Jun for the support of new troops.The second thing is to boost morale.Murong Ke took the opportunity of inspecting the barracks and encouraged his subordinates to say that Ran Min was brave and foolish. Although his soldiers were elite, they had fought too many battles and were already exhausted. As long as we grit our teeth and persevere, we will surely win! Of course, just relying on encouragement and flickering is not enough. Murong Ke felt that the Wei army had a long history of battles and was especially good at dividing into small units to intersperse assaults, so he decided to divide into three groups, leading the Chinese army to lure the enemy and contain Ran Min's main force. Then it was surrounded by the left and right armies. Soon, King Murong Jun of Yan led an army of 200,000 to the south and stationed in Zhongshan, forming a pincer attack with Murong Ke's troops. If you think that Ran Min is a person who only knows how to act recklessly and doesn't know how to strategize, then you are very wrong.After receiving the news that the main force of the Yan army was going south, Ran Min immediately revised his battle plan. Instead of foolishly going up to get dumplings, he took the initiative to run in the direction of Changshan. Did Wei Jun really escape?You obviously underestimated Ran Min's fighting spirit and determination.For a person who grew up in the flames of war, the greatest joy in life, apart from revenge, is to constantly find new opponents.Now, Shihu and his group of sons are all finished, and the Hou Zhao land collapsed, the Jie people were almost extinct, the Qiang, Di and Xiongnu were driven back to the northwest, and only Xianbei Yan was left.As for the country of Yan, there are many famous generals, how could Ran Min let it go easily!The more enemies there are, the more exciting it is to fight.This is Ran Min's logic. Therefore, he decided to lure the enemy deep, lead the Yan army to the jungle and waterfront area around Liantai, and play peek-a-boo with the Yan cavalry. Liantai is located between today's Dingzhou, Wuji and Xinle.During the Warring States Period, after Zhao State defeated Zhongshan State, General Lian Po led his troops to station here and built a platform called Lian Po Dianjiangtai, hence the name Lian Po. Ran Min chose to fight the Yan army in Liantai with full consideration: First, the Yan army is cavalry, which is good for charging in the plains. Although they won ten times in a row before, the Yan army cavalry ran away every time they were defeated If the Wei army cannot catch up, it will not be able to gather and annihilate them; once it enters the river and water swamp area, its power will be greatly reduced.Secondly, the area of ​​Liantai is densely covered with jungles, which is suitable for the Wei army to ambush; finally, Liantai is not far from Changshan, even if the battle is unfavorable, the troops of Changshan prefect Su Yan can be mobilized to respond. Therefore, the Wei army fought and retreated, repelling the Yan army's pursuit many times along the way, and just retreated to camp near Weichang on the south bank of the Lishui River.Murong Ke soon led the Yan army across the river and confronted the Wei army on the south bank.At this time, the front of Murong Ke's Yan army pursued alone, and they had already separated from the main force of Murong Jun's Yan army.Ran Min's plan has already been half realized: Weichang City is flanked by mountains and jungles, which are also the places where the Wei army ambushes; if Murong Ke chases into the jungle, he will fall into the trap set by Ran Min. The water will become a natural moat, blocking their way of escape. However, no matter how perfect the plan is, accidents will happen.Gao Kai saw through Ran Min's trap when Murong Ke joined the army. He suggested to Murong Ke that Yan Jun was a cavalry soldier, and following Wei Jun into the woods would be a waste of martial arts.Murong Ke knew a little bit, so he ordered the whole army not to enter the forest, but shouted and challenged outside the forest every day. Yan Jun was not fooled, and scolded there every day; Wei Jun couldn't afford it, and would soon run out of food.What Ran Min is most afraid of is procrastination. Once food is cut off, morale will collapse.Considering the previous experience of defeating the Yan army on the plain, Ran Min decided to use his tactics and fight the enemy to the death! Ran Min came out.Murong Ke still didn't dare to be careless - this man is really too fierce.He decided to adopt the safest and most rogue style of play - the chained Magga meat shield.The so-called serial horses are to select 5,000 of the most elite cavalry from the Yan army, put armor on the horses, and then lock them with iron chains; the so-called meat shields are to use these 5,000 cavalry as a human wall to resist the Wei army. The impact slows down the attack speed of the Wei army, consumes the vital strength of the Wei army, and buys time for the flanking troops to encircle. Murong Ke still felt uneasy. In order to trap the lion Ran Min to death, he arranged another ordinary cavalry in front of the serial horse.This cavalry was not a meat shield, but cannon fodder—it was used as a bait to be hacked and killed by the Wei army, lest Ran Min discover the serial horses and see through his painstaking arrangements.When the Wei army kills all the cavalry and gets excited, they will crash into the chain of horses.Unless the Wei army cut off the iron chain or killed all the meat shields, it would be difficult to move forward. Finally, Murong Ke also has a personal soldier.This personal soldier was arranged behind the serial horse's meat shield, which was both a reserve team and a supervising team. Well, the iron cage is tied up, just waiting for the lion to crash in. Ran Min came, rushed to the front as always, was invincible as always, and quickly defeated the Yan army cavalry at the front. Ran Min started chasing him, without any fanfare, he went straight to the Yan army's middle army. His only goal was to kill Murong Ke! Wei Jun followed closely behind Ran Min, and the sound of killing shook the sky.They know that this is likely to be a fateful battle.If he wins, Yanzhao will be in his bag! The Yan army retreated all the way, and the Wei army chased and killed all the way.Ran Min led the warriors under his command, like an angry lion, crashed into the iron cage made by Murong Ke.Ran Min finally realized that the cunning Murong Ke had laid a net for himself, and everything was Murong Ke's trick. This is the end of the matter, there is only one battle!Facing the heavy siege of the Yan army, Ran Min did not retreat, and with high morale, he rushed to the chain of horse shields and killed more than 300 people in a row.Ran Min resolutely ordered that the whole army gather, and target the Yan army's middle army, hoping to kill Murong Ke to turn the tide of the battle. Although the chained horse shields of the Yan army slowed down the advancing speed of the Wei army, they were unable to dodge and fight back freely because they were linked together by iron chains, so their mobility was greatly reduced, and they soon fell into chaos.However, these 5,000 cavalry were the elite of the Yan army. They performed their assigned tasks very well and fought desperately with the Wei army. What Murong Ke didn't expect was that the chained cavalry formation he carefully arranged could not block the charge of Wei Jun.After paying a heavy price, the Wei army broke through the serial horse formation, wiped out all 5,000 Yan troops, and went straight to Murong Ke's personal formation.In order to protect Murong Ke, Gao Kaijian, who joined the army, personally led his own soldiers to fight the Wei army, and finally died in battle. Ran Min was already very close to Murong Ke, and Wei Jun won the opportunity to turn defeat into victory with blood.At this time, the Yan army on both wings arrived and surrounded the Wei army who was in a hard fight.The Wei army had few soldiers, and after a bloody battle, the remaining thousands of soldiers were all killed.Ran Min had no choice but to break out to the east.Under the pursuit of the Yan army, Ran Min rushed for more than 20 miles, and finally broke out of the encirclement. At this most critical moment, an accident happened: the horse Zhu Longma, who had been fighting side by side with Ran Min for many years and was equally valiant, fell down due to exhaustion... The soldiers were captured alive.In order to get back the coach, the soldiers of the Wei army around him still fought the enemy without hesitation, and finally all died in battle. Murong Ke's idea of ​​serial horses was successfully copied by another nation from Liaodong.However, this cavalry formation, which was almost invincible in the cold weapon era, seemed to be cursed by the heavens, and was finally defeated by a powerful infantry. After Ran Min was captured, the Yan army took advantage of the victory to attack Yecheng.Knowing that there was no way out, the Han soldiers and civilians in Yecheng stubbornly resisted for more than three months under extremely difficult circumstances.In August, Yecheng ran out of food and aid, people ate each other, and finally fell, and Ran Wei perished. After capturing Ran Min alive, Murong Ke did not kill him immediately, but sent him to Murong Jun, King of Yan.Looking at this Han man who was still invincible after being captured, Murong Jun said sarcastically: "You only have the ability to be a servant, so why dare you call yourself the emperor?" Ran Min's answer was righteous and strict: "The world is in chaos, and you Cao Yidi, with a human face and a beast heart, wants to usurp us. I am a hero for a while, why can't I be an evil emperor!" It means that the world is in chaos, and barbarians like you beasts can commit chaos, why can't we be the king and the emperor! Murong Jun was furious, and had Ran Min whipped three hundred times, and then sent him to Longcheng, where he was beheaded at Yexing Mountain. (As for the specific location of Yexing Mountain, I have been looking it up, but it must be in Chaoyang, Liaoning. Friends who know it, please let me know.) According to legend, after Ran Min's death, the vegetation within seven miles of the mountain withered, and locusts arose in Longcheng, and from May to December, there was no rain at all.You must know that in that era, the consequences of visions from heaven were very serious, and they were major political events related to the fundamentals of national governance.Murong Jun felt that this was God's punishment for his execution of Ran Min, so he immediately sent people to the mountain to offer sacrifices, and made Ran Min the Heavenly King of Wu Mourning.Strange to say, after this series of ceremonies, there was a heavy snowfall that day, which was as high as knees, as if mourning Ran Min who fought for survival and freedom. For Ran Min, there have always been mixed praises and criticisms.His deeds can be summed up in the simplest words, just two words: Kill Hu—the six barbarians inside and outside, whoever dares to be called a soldier will be killed!With just this sentence, Ran Min is qualified to leave a great mark in Chinese history. This weight has only one color, and that is blood. 有人说，冉闵是拯救中原汉族的抗胡英雄，在他的浴血奋战下，中原地区的羯族和匈奴基本上被杀绝了，没被杀掉的也拖家带口退出中原，中原汉人由此得到了生存和喘息的机会。有人说，冉闵是个不折不扣的杀人狂魔，他与石勒石虎父子没什么两样，只不过石氏父子杀的是汉人，而冉闵杀的是胡人。甚至有人认为，如果没有冉闵，纯正的中华文明很可能将从地球上消失。有人说，冉闵是个反复小人，先给石氏父子打工，看到石虎的儿子们不中用，机会来了，就自立门户，拔刀相向。 好了，就此打住。 我一直在思考，历史，包括历史上的人物，应该怎么去看。不论是觉得冉闵好的人，还是觉得冉闵坏的人，很多时候，我们都是站在今天的立场，和我们自身的道德观点去看待问题。说白了，就是用今人的观点去评价古人的行为。 记得几年前，我曾在一个历史论坛与人就白起杀降的问题展开辩论。过程很漫长，内容很庞杂，围观的人很多，口水板儿砖横飞，最后从一场战争的问题上升到了白起的人品问题，从秦国的立国方针上升到了秦国是不是军国主义的问题。但凡支持秦国的人，都被扣上了军国主义分子的高帽子。 这就是典型的中国知识分子的论战——从对事，到对人。不怕观点不对，就怕立场不对。最后，那位老兄竟然搬出了无产阶级和革命斗争的理论，为白起和我定性，批判。 我很荣幸，能够被人拿来与一代战神相提并论。 我也觉得很可笑，这就好比是拿今人的眼光，去质问古人为什么不穿内裤。 最后，我放弃了，不是认输，而是觉得无聊。不过，那位老兄的执着和思维方式，倒是让我佩服。 我要说的，其实只有一点：从当时的环境去看当时人们的行为。 就这么简单，这就是我理解的历史。 于是，一切都能够说得通了。 冉闵，他是反复无常，是残忍嗜杀，他的行为，是为中原汉族争取到了生存的权利，是给胡族带来了灭顶之灾，甚至在一定程度上改变了历史的进程……但他这么做的最根本的原因，只有两个字： 生存。 是的，就是生存。 我们每个人都要生存，比如吃饭。所以，我们要去工作，要赚钱，要改善生活；之后，才能谈得上发展，实现理想，去做一个对社会有用的人。 为理想而放弃生存，我敬佩；为生存而选择妥协或爆发，我理解。 所以，我理解冉闵。他所做的一切抉择，说到底，都是为了生存。起先，是为了自己的生存；最后，是为了汉人的生存——汉人实在是太惨了，比猪狗畜牲的都不如。 他没有多少文化，没有远大的理想，他做能做的，就是拿起屠刀——就跟胡人对待汉人的方式一样，拿起屠刀——杀！ 剃人头者，人恒剃其头。 这个世界是有报应的，胡人把汉人当成低等公民，把他们当成可以随意蹂躏践踏的牲口，他们没有想到，即使是最卑微的人，也会忍无可忍！现在，时候到了！于是，数十上百万人头落地。长期积压在中原汉人胸中的怒火，随着冉闵那一声怒吼，倾泻而出！ 这就是事实，简单直接，粗暴血腥，不需要太多的上纲上线和高帽子。 而我们想要看到的，就是事实。 冉闵一死，中原汉人便失去了抗争的领袖，冉魏的大臣绝望至极，大多守节自杀，少数投奔东晋，竟无一人投降燕国。中原地区的几十万汉人不愿为燕国统治，自发逃往江南，寻求东晋的庇护。然而，由于东晋的军队未能及时赶到，使得几十万百姓在南迁中途受到各地胡人的截击，全部被杀。受命前往接应的东晋大将自觉无颜面对中原父老，随即自杀谢罪。 汉人恢复中原最后的一点希望，也随着冉闵的死和冉魏的灭亡而付诸东流。 呜呼，五胡乱华。 然则，乱世出英雄，逐鹿中原，唯强者居之！