Chapter 53 Seventeen, Yedu Beacon Smoke

Fu Jian's traitors showed their true colors one by one, and the Guanzhong area was almost occupied by them.Murong Chong and Murong Hong from the Xianbei, and Yao Chang from the Qiang were all merciless to the former Qin soldiers. Murong Chong lost to former Qin general Dou Chong in Puban, and led the Xianbei cavalry to join Murong Hong. After all, Yao Chang was afraid of Fu Jian's reputation and actively made peace with the Xianbei people.Murong Hong's troops reached more than 100,000, and his morale was restored, so he sent an envoy to Fu Jian to send a letter to Fu Jian, asking Fu Jian to send Murong Wei, and he immediately withdrew his troops and returned to Kanto. good neighbour.

Fu Jian was furious, and called Murong Wei to vent the anger that had accumulated in his chest for many days: "I asked your brothers to be generals and nayans. Which one is not a good job? What is the difference between this and going home? Why do you want to go home?" Take advantage of my danger and become so rampant! Murong Chui caused chaos in the Guandong, and Murong Hong and Murong Chong raised troops in the Guandong. Murong Hong's letter is here, if you want to go, I will help you go. These clans of yours can be described as human-faced and beast-hearted. Can you treat each other with the courtesy of a national scholar?"

Murong Wei kowtowed and wept again, Fu Jian softened his heart and said, "Your loyalty, I understand, is all the fault of the three Lizi, not your business." He resumed his position and treated him as before. . The cowardly Murong Wei also resorted to insidious means this time. Fu Jian asked him to write a letter to recruit Murong Chui and the Murong Hong brothers, but he wrote a secret letter to Murong Hong, telling him to carry out anti-Qin Fuyan activities, and awarded the three of them position, once something happens to him, he can become emperor. When Murong Hong received this letter, he felt that it was a rare commodity. It was not clear that it was the "Edict of the First Emperor". Why should I hesitate?So the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Yanxing, and troops were raised to attack Chang'an.

The recovery of Yan has not yet succeeded, and the Xianbei people themselves made trouble first.Many people in Murong Hong's army originally worked under Murong Chong, but now they can't stand Murong Hong's harsh military law, and feel that Murong Hong's benefits may not be beneficial to themselves, so they conspired to murder Murong Hong, and elected Murong Chong as the emperor's younger brother to command Guan Zhongyan. military. Murong Chong is just a young man in his twenties, because of his good looks ("Book of Jin" says he "has the talent of Longyang"), he was deeply loved by Fu Jian and entered Fu Jian's palace.Wang Meng persuaded Fu Jian many times, and Fu Jian sent him to other places as an official.There was a ballad in Chang'an City that said: "Phoenix Phoenix stops Afang." Fu Jian thought it was an auspicious sign, and specially planted hundreds of thousands of phoenix trees and bamboos in Afang City to wait for Phoenix.And the true meaning of that prophecy is to allude to Murong Chong's future rebellion.Murong Chong's Xianbei army defeated Fu Hui's army who had just retreated from Luoyang City to help in the battle in Afang City, and then defeated 30,000 Qin soldiers sent by Fu Jian to stop them in Bashang, and entered Afang City.Murong Chong's small character Phoenix finally fulfilled the prophecy ten years ago.

Chang'an City was besieged by Murong Chong and was in danger.As mentioned before, Fu Jian realized that the Murong brothers should not be regarded as national scholars at all, but it was too late. Only Murong Chui wrote a special letter to Fu Jian, explaining to him the reasons for raising troops in Kanto, and finally put on a worried air and said: "I am now marching to surround Yecheng. Come out to challenge our army from time to time, I am afraid that random arrows will accidentally shoot him one day and hurt His Majesty's heart, why don't you call him back to Guanzhong, so that we can all be happy."

Unwilling to give up the last piece of Kanto territory, Fu Jian replied to Murong Chui: "I treated you so well, but you betrayed me. You are so old (Murong Chui was over 60 at the time), and you still have to carry a 'rebel ', you should be the one who should be sad and mournful. I am only sorry that Fu Pi is young and inexperienced, and I am afraid that I am not your opponent when I meet you in a place like Yecheng!" This was the last dialogue between the two heroes.Murong Chui didn't say anything after reading the reply letter, so he could only continue planning his plan to attack Ye.

The Houyan army was surrendered everywhere in the Kanto region, and Fu Hui who was guarding Luoyang abandoned the city on his own initiative. Now only Fu Pi's Yecheng is left.Murong Chui knew that Yecheng was the old capital of Yan State, and it would be difficult to convince the public if it was not taken down, so he placed most of his troops near Yecheng and focused on attacking the city.Fu Pi's city defenses were indeed complete. The Yan army spent a lot of effort to capture only the outer city, and the Qin army withdrew and continued to defend the middle city. The war lasted from the first month of the year (AD 384) to the seventh month, with little progress.At this time, the contradictions within the Yan army were exposed, and Zhai Bin, a member of the Ding Ling, did not want to be restrained by Murong Chui, and gradually became dissatisfied.Murong Bao, Murong De and others advised Murong Chui to act first and get rid of Zhai Bin brothers.Murong Chui thought that now is the time to recruit talents from all over the world, and killing Di Bin would lose the hearts of the world. He also said that Zhai Bin's "arrogance leads to quick defeat, how can it be a disaster?" On the contrary, it is better for Di Bin. (Murong Chui used Zheng Zhuanggong's method to deal with Zhai Bin, and sat back and watched him die. This kind of "killing method" sometimes makes people shudder. Try "Zuo Zhuan" "Zheng Zhuanggong overcomes Duan Yuyan", "Swords and Swords" , all in words.")

Zhai Bin was a man of courage and intrepidity, so he naturally made progress, and asked his subordinate Dingling to ask Murong Chui to make him a minister, but Murong Chui refused.The capricious Zhai Bin sent secret envoys to communicate with Fu Pi, preparing to burst the embankment and release water into the city.Murong Chui had expected it a long time ago. After obtaining the evidence of Di Bin and Fu Pi's conspiracy, he arrested and killed Di Bin and his brothers Di Tan and Di Min. Zhai Bin's nephew, Zhai Zhen, lost his life in this internal strife. He fled to Handan with Dingling in the middle of the night, and then returned to Yecheng. He wanted to cooperate with Fu Pi, but was defeated by Murong Bao and Murong Long's troops. , Return to Handan.Murong Chui wanted to take advantage of Dingling's unstable foothold and wipe them out, so he sent Murong Kai and Murong Shao to attack Handan. Zhai Zhen fled to Zhongshan (now Dingzhou, Hebei). Kai didn't listen to Murong Nong's advice, but was ambushed by Ding Lingren and lost the battle.Zhai Zhen settled down in Zhongshan and became another separatist force that harassed Murong Chui's rear.

Murong Chui besieged Yecheng for more than half a year, without gaining anything, which added to the unstable factor of Ding Ling.Knowing that Fu Pi had absolutely no reason to surrender, he decided to give up the onslaught and set up troops in the new city. At the same time, he left Yecheng with a retreat route to the west, hoping for a good ending. The grain and grass hoarded in Yecheng had been exhausted, but Fu Pi refused to accept Murongchui's favor and insisted on living and dying with Yecheng.At this time, news came from the south that the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had crossed the Yellow River.

It turned out that after the Eastern Jin Dynasty won the Battle of Feishui by luck, Xie Anzuo asked Emperor Xiaowu to take this opportunity to intervene in the northern battlefield and open up the territory of the Central Plains.The Eastern Jin Dynasty sent Xie Xuan to attack the Qin Dynasty, but the defenders of the former Qin Dynasty had no fighting spirit, and the forces of the Later Yan did not have time to reach the Henan area.Xie Xuan and others conquered Pengcheng, successively occupied Gunzhou, Qingzhou and other places, and regained a large area of ​​lost land south of the Yellow River in less than half a year. sharp contrast.

The guards in Yecheng got the news from the Jin army, and Yang Ying, a Han under Fu Pi, and others urged Fu Pi to ask for help from the Eastern Jin Dynasty.Fu Pi was still unwilling, but the Qin army was defeated in the battle between Liyang and the Eastern Jin forward Liu Laozhi. In desperation, Fu Pi finally wrote to Xie Xuan reluctantly, hoping to exchange Yecheng for the food and grass of the Eastern Jin Dynasty , Yang Ying and others bribed Jiao Kui, who joined the army as a messenger, and conspired to sacrifice the city.Xie Xuan received the secret letter and decided to reinforce Yecheng. On the one hand, he sent Liu Laozhi and Teng Tianzhi to lead 20,000 Beifu soldiers to Yecheng to help in the battle, and on the other hand, he sent food to Yecheng by land and water. Murong Chui repulsed the Dingling troops who were making trouble, and when he turned around, he found that Fu Pi was still defending Yecheng with reinforcements. He was very angry and sent troops to surround Yecheng. At the same time, Liu Laozhi's army also came under Yecheng.The Jin army and the Yan army were invincible in the first battle, but the combat effectiveness of the Beifu soldiers quickly showed. The Jin army won the second contact battle and immediately repelled Houyan's siege outside Yecheng.The whole army of Yan soldiers fled to the north, and Liu Laozhi was relentless when he gained power, and he chased after him without saying hello to Fu Pi.The exhausted Qin Jun had no choice but to follow behind, but the speed was a lot slower. The morale of the Jin army is booming, and the Houyan army has been defeated in a row, and it seems to be about to collapse.Murong Chui had a clear understanding of the situation. He said: "The Qin and Jin armies have just joined forces. It is time to rely on each other. They are both injured and prosperous. Now that they have arrived one after the other, they can be defeated individually." Liu Laozhi marched two hundred miles in a hurry, and when he arrived at Wuqiaoze (the name of the river), he bumped into the luggage left by the Houyan army here. The Jin army scrambled to snatch it. Running over, the Jin army had no time to take up their positions, and the Yan army had already beheaded thousands of people.Murong De and Murong Long led troops to block the Wuzhang Bridge on the river, cutting off Liu Laozhi's retreat. Fortunately, Liu Laozhi rode a good horse and jumped across the river, so he was able to escape back to Yecheng alone. (Beifu soldiers, with the reputation of "the master of all victories", made great achievements in the battle of Feishui, but fell into a tussle in the small Wuqiao Zetou. Liu Laozhi was so brave that he almost lost his life. He didn't know this Is there really a fateful arrangement between victory and defeat? Anyway, Murong Chui did have a way of dealing with the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. No longer dared to have "unreasonable thoughts", and the subsequent Northern Expedition almost never crossed the Yellow River.)