Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Prelude to Jian'an

The vanguard of the Liangzhou Light Cavalry Regiment, the three generals of Chang'an, caught up with the emperor's team at a place called Dongjian in Hongnong County.At this time, the sequence of the year has entered November, and it is extremely cold. The army that had had internal strife did not see harmony after the reconciliation, and the morale of the generals dropped a lot. The Tianzi Guard Corps was soon dispersed by the coalition forces of the three generals.If the coalition forces take advantage of the momentum and drive straight in, maybe they have successfully regained the emperor, right?In the end, Yang Feng, who had experienced many battles, relieved the emperor from danger.

In the queue of the emperor, there were many vehicles loaded with the clothes of the emperor, empress, and maids of honor, as well as boxes and cabinets of gold and silver utensils for sacrifices.Yang Fengyu pried open these boxes and dumped the contents on the road before he was defeated and fled. The purpose of the three generals is to recapture the emperor, but for their soldiers, recapturing the emperor has nothing to do with them.What they care about is rather the silk and satin clothes and gold and silver utensils that are poured all over the floor in front of them.All of a sudden, people were robbing and robbing, and everyone even killed each other in order to pick up things.At this time, they have thrown the idea of ​​​​chasing out of the sky.

Although the emperor's team suffered great losses, thanks to Yang Feng's wit, they were able to escape to a place called Cao Yang, where they regrouped. Many people in the Son of Heaven's team were also killed, including some of Emperor Xian's close servants, who were the personal staff who served Emperor Xian in every possible way.Fourteen-year-old Emperor Xian believed that the responsibility lay entirely with himself, and that these people died because of his insistence on returning to the East—when he thought of this, he no longer dared to be willful. "I have given up the idea of ​​returning to the east, and now I have decided to return to Chang'an. In this way, the three generals in Chang'an will not attack us again, right? Send them the truce edict!" Xiandi said.

"That's good! Bloodshed is best avoided." Yang Feng agreed on the surface.But after seeing the envoy of the Son of Heaven set off for the position of the three generals in Chang'an with the truce edict, Yang Feng immediately sent a secret envoy to Baibo Valley. ——Send reinforcements quickly.After defeating the three generals of Chang'an, the enemy of the imperial court, it is guaranteed to make a fortune! The Yellow Turban Army in Baibo Valley has always been regarded as the target of crusade by the imperial court.Such a group now has the opportunity to turn around and turn into Emperor Qin's army to attack the enemies of the court!

At that time, the Yellow Turban Army in Baibo Valley, led by Hu Cai, Li Le, and Han Xian, had an alliance with the Southern Huns in Pingyang. After receiving the news of Yang Feng's request for help, the Baibo Yellow Turban Army immediately dispatched envoys to the Southern Huns and decided to march south together. The three generals of Chang'an who had read the truce edict were not at ease.They believed that this move might be the opponent's tactic to delay the attack, so they did not relax their posture. But their attention was only on the emperor's army.The Baibo army and the Southern Xiongnu army quietly crossed the Yellow River and circled behind the Liangzhou Corps.

——The ones coming from behind are our own troops chasing by Chang'an... The Chang'an three generals who held this idea did not pay attention to the rear at all. Therefore, when they heard the shouts from behind, they even thought it was the Chang'an friendly army. They did not know that the emperor had issued a truce, and they never dreamed that it was the enemy. Raid. They didn't know that they had been attacked by the enemy until the random arrows flew.But it was too late.The generals of Chang'an were in a panic and were defeated like a mountain. They left the bodies of the dead and retreated from Caoyang in a hurry.

"The Son of Heaven is just a brat, and we were tricked by the brat!" Zhang Ji was so angry that he couldn't speak. The outcome is evenly divided. The emperor's accompanying army believed that the war was over.But this was a big mistake, because the troops from Chang'an set out in sequence from the troops that had completed their equipment.It was the vanguard troops that fought against the emperor's guard troops, and the follow-up troops had arrived from Chang'an one after another. "The enemy army has been greatly injured, and they will not attack for the time being. Let's hurry up, Luoyang is not far from here."

Yang Fengsui ordered the army to set off. Cao Yang was located about two-thirds of the way from Chang'an to Luoyang. Since he was about to arrive at Luoyang, which he had missed for a long time, the spirits of the generals were indeed a little relaxed, not to mention that it was impossible to maintain a state of tension just after the fierce battle. At this moment, a shout resounded through the sky suddenly.It turned out that the Chang'an army launched another attack after the reinforcements arrived.This was beyond the expectations of the Tianzi Guards. A tragic battle scene ensues.

The retaliation battle in which he was once defeated and his comrades were killed was honestly extremely fierce. Of course, the professional soldiers in the army guarding the Son of Heaven ran very fast, while the officials were slow-moving, so they became the targets of the Liangzhou Corps.Four of the Jiuqing were killed in this battle, and one was captured.Zhao Wen, the chief apprentice of the third company, also fell into the hands of Chang'an troops. Not to mention the fate of hundreds of court ladies whose footsteps were slower than the Duke's. "Cross the river to the north bank of the Yellow River! We will take you to the place where there are boats!"

The generals of Baibogu and the Southern Huns decided to take the defeated emperor to their own base.The troops from Chang'an were not only unfamiliar with the land on the north bank of the Yellow River, but also had no ships.When Baibogu and the allied forces of the Huns came to rescue the emperor, they crossed the Yellow River by boat, and the boat they used was hidden in a secret place. Since they wanted to escape, it was of course safest for Tianzi and his party to cross the Yellow River to the north bank. The hiding place is about 30 meters below the water surface from the river bank.The crowd tore apart the royal clothes and other silks and satins, weaved them into a net, and hung it from the cliff to the surface of the water. Emperor Xian and important courtiers climbed down the net. It took a lot of effort to get down to the surface of the water.

The soldiers and lower court officials were refused to use the net made of silk cloth.The hidden special ship has a limit on the number of passengers, and if it carries too much, it will overturn.The soldiers and officials can only climb down the cliff.But they were allowed to go down, but they were not allowed to board the boat. ——Behead all the lowly people! When they came to the water's edge, with an order, a general named Sun Hui drew his sword and slashed and killed these people. Even the queen's royal clothes were stained red with their blood splattered everywhere. After the emperor and the people around him boarded the ship, there were still people who were submerged in the water and were desperately holding on to the ship's cables or the side of the ship.Sun Hui cut off all the fingers of these people without mercy. Tianzi and his party finally arrived at a place called Dayang on the other side.This is Hanoi County. Zhang Yang, the prefect of Hanoi, has always served as a bridge between the Eastern generals and the Chang'an court. He asked thousands of soldiers to present bags of rice on their backs. The emperor gave him the title of "General Anguo".Hu Cai, the Yellow Turban Army of the Baibo Valley who made the greatest contribution in this campaign, was awarded the title of "General Who Conquers the East". Tianzi and his party temporarily settled in a place called Anyi in Hedong County.The second year of Xingping passed. The imperial court changed the reign name at the beginning of the following year. The year name "Xingping" has been used for two years. During this period, the bloodshed has never stopped. It can be seen that this year name seems to be unlucky. Therefore, this time, in order to get rid of the bad luck and refresh people's hearts, the new year name is designated as "Jian'an" . Taking the word "Jian'an" as the year name is in the hope of "establishing a peaceful and healthy society".This era name was used for twenty-four years, but people's expectations did not come true.Moreover, it also became the last reign title of the Later Han Dynasty. The emperor celebrates the New Year in Anyi. Emperor Xian, Dong Cheng, Zhang Yang and other orthodox officials were anxious to think of Luoyang.But Yang Feng, Li Le and other leaders who came from refugees did not agree. They hoped to keep the emperor in their own territory.On the other hand, the dispute between Li Jue and Guo Si in Chang'an remained unchanged. No matter how much you want to go back to Luoyang, Luoyang has been burned to ruins by Dong Zhuo, and the emperor doesn't even have a palace to live in.So everyone decided to send Dong Cheng as the captain of the advance team to enter Luoyang and start preparing for the construction of the palace. Funding is of course needed to build a palace.This trip back to the east can be said to have gone through catastrophes, and the imperial treasury was empty. Therefore, they decided to collect donations from powerful people from all over the country. Because of the emperor's return to the east, when bloody struggles continued from Chang'an to Hongnong, what about the situation in other areas? Brothers Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao put up the banner against Cao Cao after accomodating Lu Bu, but they fell into a truce due to the locust infestation, as mentioned above. When Li Jue killed Fan Chou in Chang'an, the battle between Cao Cao and Lu Bu started again. The battlefield was a place called Dingtao. Lu Bu failed in the first battle. Cao Cao was defeated and lost again. Tao Qian, the father-killing enemy whom Cao Cao regarded as mortal, was dead at this time. ——In that case, let’s capture Xuzhou! Cao Cao thought so.As mentioned earlier, due to Tao Qian's last words, Xuzhou decided to welcome Liu Bei as the prefect of the state.But in the era of war and chaos, the weak are preying on the strong, and it is a rule that the powerful will become the king of the place. At this time, the right to appoint the emperor is in name only. — This matter is worth considering.In the past, Gaozu focused on consolidating Guanzhong first, and Emperor Guangwu also dominated the world after securing Hanoi. Compared with attacking Xuzhou from others, it is not as important to consolidate Yanzhou first. It was Xun Yu, an aide, who expressed his opposition to this opinion. --okay, I get it. Chen Gong and Lu Bu are rebelling in the base area, so suppressing them should take priority over everything else.If you don't even have a solid base, no matter how you expand your circle of influence, the result will still be shaky. Chen Gong and Lu Bu's allied forces of more than ten thousand challenged Cao Cao, but were defeated by his ambush.Lu Bu fled to the east and took refuge in Liu Bei, who was transferred by Tao Qian as Xuzhou Mu. Lu Bu said to Liu Bei: "Brother Xuande (Liu Bei), there is one thing that I am really puzzled about. Since we are in a similar situation, I believe you can understand my feelings. There is no general in the Kanto who does not hate Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo has been killed by us. Kill Lu Bu. Now that I, Lu Bu, have come to the East, not only did they not welcome me, but they deliberately wanted to kill me. Yuan Shao did the same, and Cao Cao did the same. Isn’t this unreasonable? People in the Central Plains are very cunning, so cunning that they can’t Trust, this is a different matter for you, brother, you are also from the border, so I can trust you." Liu Bei was born in Zhuo County, and Zhuo County can indeed be called a backwater.However, compared to Wuyuan, Lu Bu's birthplace, it is much closer to the Central Plains! "Where am I from a remote place like you!" Liu Bei showed an unhappy expression. It doesn't matter, what's abominable is that Lu Bu, who still called him "brother" at first, called him "brother" later. Liu Bei was thirty-five years old at this time.There is no record of Lu Bu's birth year.But judging from the fact that he was adopted as an adopted son by Dong Zhuo, he shouldn't be very old, at best he was on the same level as Liu Bei, or how much younger? According to the Chinese custom, even if you are a few years younger, but the other party's status is about the same as your own, you should call him "brother".Calling people of similar age "brother" is only limited to when the status of the other party is obviously lower than one's own. When he was called "brother", Liu Bei showed sullen expression.But he endured it. The heroic Lu Bu who killed Dong Zhuo is indeed famous all over the world, even three-year-old children know his heroic name. ——Lu Bu joined Liu Bei in Xuzhou! When this news gets out, it will be extremely beneficial to Liu Bei. It could be said that Liu Bei wanted to conquer the world. Although he had already climbed to the Xuzhou Mu Zhizun, his popularity was not high. In actual battles, he used the name of commander-in-chief to coerce the opponent. This kind of situation was not uncommon in wars at that time. Lu Bu is widely known because he killed his lord twice, so it should not be "famous all over the world", but "notorious", right?However, even if it is "notorious", he is indeed a figure that everyone knows. "It's not bad to use Lu Bu's popularity to promote it widely!" Liu Bei, who had this idea, endured Lu Bu's defiant behavior. Liu Bei also has his own ideas. His current status was given to him by others.In addition to his status, he also took over Tao Qian's subordinates. At this moment, Liu Bei has his own direct line personnel and Tao Qian's subordinates. Of the two, Tao Qian's subordinates are the majority. Therefore, Liu Bei must control his subordinates for a period of time to come One point is extra careful. "You can use Lu Bu as a pawn..." When talking with Lu Bu, Liu Bei quickly made this plan. "Brother Fengxian (Lu Bu), I am definitely different from the other generals. Maybe this is because I am from the border. How could I have the intention of killing Brother Fengxian? I want to ask Xiongtai to stay in my country as a guest In the camp." Liu Bei said. Zhang Miao, who was defeated by Cao Cao in Dingtao, decided to let his younger brother guard Yongqiu City, while he went to Yuan Shu to beg for reinforcements. But defeat will demoralize the army. ——The reason why we were defeated and suffered so much is the Commander's fault!It was his misjudgment that got us killed! This voice was raised among the subordinates, and the result was: ——If such a commander is not killed, we ourselves will be killed sooner or later! Before Zhang Miaosui saw Yuan Shu, he was killed by his subordinates. The younger brother Zhang Chao stayed in Yongqiu for a period of time, but when Emperor Xian crossed the Yellow River and came to Anyi, he could no longer support him, and was surrounded and attacked by Cao Cao. Zhang Chao committed suicide and died. Cao Cao spent a year suppressing the rebellion and consolidating the stronghold of Yanzhou.