Chapter 10 2. Pandora's Box

At sunset in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Pandora's box was opened.Following the countries of the Western Regions, the Qiang people also rebelled. A long time ago, the Qiang people originally lived outside the Great Wall. At the end of Wang Mang's new dynasty, they took advantage of the troubled times of the Han Dynasty and immigrated to the Great Wall one after another.At that time, Liu Xiu's old rival Kai Xiao was in charge of guarding Xizhou, but there was no way to stop them.Kai Xiao simply did not do anything, took advantage of the situation, led the Qiang people into the fortress, and together with him muddied the water of Liu Xiujun's arrival in the world.

Later, Liu Xiu destroyed Kaixiao and appointed a captain to protect the Qiang to manage the Qiang people.However, in the entire Northwest, the Qiang people, the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei and other ethnic minorities seemed to be sent by heaven to oppose the Han people, so that the Han people had no reason to live in peace. Ever since, they always rebel every now and then.During the long campaign of rebellion and suppression of rebellion, the Han Dynasty produced several experts on Qiang people, two of whom are the most famous: one is former Fubo General Ma Yuan, and the other is Deng Sui's father Deng Xun.

These two people have one thing in common: holding a sharp arrow in one hand and shaking an olive in the other. First, the Qiang people were frightened, and then they were persuaded by virtue, and a work team was sent to the countryside to persuade them to live a good life and not to come out to make trouble. As mentioned earlier, when Deng Xun was alive, the Qiang people were very obedient.After Deng Xun's death, they were very sad, and even wanted to commit suicide, and followed Deng Xun.Back then, when General Ma Yuan died, the Qiang people were not so sad. It can be seen that Deng Xun's management of the Qiang people really achieved peaceful development and harmonious coexistence.

However, after Deng Xun's death, all these beautiful situations were completely destroyed. The Han officials after Deng Xun found the Qiang people distasteful, and resorted to all means of oppression.The result is that you don't like me, and I don't like you. The Qiang people are full of gunpowder, and it's time to explode. Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.Officials of the Han Dynasty acted recklessly, and it was only a matter of time before the Qiang people rebelled, only a fuse was missing. Soon, someone lit the fuse, and the Qiang people rebelled like wildfire, sweeping through the Han Dynasty for decades.

The person who lit the fire was not a Qiang, but a Han Wang Hong. After the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty withdrew the Protectorate of the Western Regions, didn't they send people to meet Liang Chi and his party?The person sent was Wang Hong in front of him, who was the captain of cavalry at that time. After Wang Hong received the mission of Empress Dowager Deng to send troops to rescue the Western Regions, he was very active. He immediately returned to the Qiang land, pulled up the Qiang cavalry troops, and rushed to the front line day and night. There were thousands of Qiang cavalrymen who were forcibly drawn up by Wang Hong.When these people heard that they were going to the Western Regions, they all panicked.The Western Regions are far away, the sky is high and the earth is wide, and those barbarians are no worse than themselves in killing people.If he followed Wang Hong, he would probably be beaten by meat buns, and he would never return.

Thinking of this, all the Qiang people retreated in their hearts.So before the army Wang Hong pulled out of the fortress, the Qiang cavalry smeared the soles of their feet with oil and slipped away. Seeing that the rescue plan was about to fail, Wang Hong felt anxious, like a fish being fried in a pot.Therefore, the Han army had no choice but to be ruthless, and any fleeing Qiang cavalry would be dealt with severely if caught. How serious is this? The Qiang people never dreamed that after they were captured, they would be beheaded. The Han Dynasty even sent people to find out the tribe they belonged to, and even the size of their hometown.

The Han Dynasty's technique of manipulating people is really bad, and it is clearly to awaken the Qiang people's idea of ​​rebellion. Sure enough, as long as the Qiang tribe heard that the Han army was coming, all the tribes, old and young, men and women, would move and run away, and many tribes ran outside the Great Wall. Outside the Great Wall is not the territory of the Han people, so it is much easier now.The Qiang people have followed Deng Xun for many years, but they don't know what rebellion is. Now rebellion feels a little awkward and unfamiliar.They have no weapons, just pick up a piece of wood or an iron tool, which is a revolutionary tool.Isn't this situation the same as when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up and turned into soldiers?

In a word, the government forces the people to rebel, and the people have to rebel. The generals of the Han army on the front line were confused, but the empress dowager Deng who was far away in Luoyang City was very smart.She believes that the local government made a mistake, and the central government cannot follow suit.In order to make up for the mistake, the Empress Dowager Deng issued an edict, pardoning the Qiang people for the crime of forming a party and conspiring to rebel. After issuing the edict, Empress Dowager Deng called a person over and said: The front line is in chaos, now it's time for you to go out.

The person Queen Mother Deng summoned was her elder brother Chariot General Deng Zhi. Deng Zhi looked forward to the stars and the moon, just waiting for the words of Queen Mother Deng.As soon as he received the task, he immediately led his troops to set off. No one may know that Deng Zhi has been longing for a decent fight.The reason is very simple, he longs to be a person with pursuit, and he doesn't want to be said that he is relying on his old sister to have the glory he is today. But the mouth grows on other people, and he can't help himself.If he wants to gag the mouths of the people in the world, he must take action, like Ma Fang, a relative of Queen Ma's family, or Dou Xian of Queen Dou's family, go to the front line in person, kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds.

The person who followed Deng Zhi on the expedition was a very wicked person.We are not unfamiliar with this person at all, he is Ren Shang who ran back from the Western Regions before.Ren Shang lost the Western Regions, but he did not lose his official position, and was reappointed by the central government as the captain of Zhengxi. Deng Zhi and Ren Shang led five regiments of the Northern Army, a powerful force of the Han Dynasty, and together with the strength of the local counties, there were a total of 50,000 troops. They set off in winter and arrived in Hanyang (now Gangu County, Gansu Province) in the spring of the next day, that is, the first month of 108 AD.

Deng Zhi's plan is to complete the army assembly in Ji County, the county where the Hanyang County Government is located, and then prepare for action.However, the plan is not as good as changing. The Qiang people have already set up a net, waiting for Deng Zhi to pounce. Sure enough, as soon as Deng Zhi arrived in Ji County, the Qiang people attacked the Han army with lightning speed, taught Deng Zhi a lesson, and killed more than a thousand people. At this time, Deng Zhi became nervous. There is no reason not to be nervous.He has been with Dou Xian, and he has seen how Dou Xian flattered the barbarians.Before Dou Xian, Ma Fang, a relative of the Ma family, would kill without blinking an eye.But for him, this is the first battle in his life, and he is still leading the elite of the Han Dynasty, and everything has been disrupted before he can gain a firm foothold. Just when Deng Zhi was frightened, the Empress Dowager Deng sent him a fierce man. This person was Liang Chi who had just been welcomed back from the Western Regions. As soon as Liang Qi entered Dunhuang County, he received an order to rush to the front to join the battle.Liang Chi came in time. He arrived in Zhangye (now Zhangye City, Gansu Province), fought with the Qiang army, beheaded and captured seven or eight thousand people, and the rest fled. At this time, more than 300 chiefs of the Qiang people came to surrender. Liang Mo was very kind and sent them all back, saying that as long as they live a good life, you will be safe. The Qiang people are safe, but Deng Zhi is very depressed.In winter, after the troops from all counties had assembled, the Qiang people also took their positions. The two sides agreed on a time and found a place to fight hard. The location of the battle was chosen in Pingxiang (now Tongwei County, Gansu Province).There are tens of thousands of people on both sides of the game. Deng Zhi probably didn't expect that when he was about to take revenge, he made a basic common sense mistake. The army is fine, and the time and place are fine. His biggest mistake was using the wrong person. This person is Ren Shang. As I said before, Ren Shang is a wicked person.This general, who had been with Deng Xun and Dou Xian, who had seen big scenes, had a big temper, but his military ability was not ordinary. This time, Deng Zhi handed over all the elites to him, and it was up to him whether he could regain the face he was beaten earlier.But Ren Shang had a scuffle with the Qiang people, rushed up with tens of thousands of people, and then retreated. When counting the number of people, there were more than 8,000 fewer. Needless to say, those eight thousand people all became ghosts under the knife of the Qiang people.As a result, the courage of the Qiang people became stronger, and their momentum became stronger than Deng Zhi's imagination. Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, looking forward to going to the battlefield, but what I look forward to is this result.If time goes back, Deng Zhi is willing to hit a wall a thousand times, and he will never go to this unlucky battlefield. But they've come all the time, but they can't beat them, and they want to retreat but have no excuses, what should I do? Thinking of this, Deng Zhi felt dizzy. What makes Deng Zhi even bigger is still behind.At this time, the front line can't be covered, and the rear can't hold it anymore. If it is delayed, there may be big troubles. This huge rear, where it can't hold up, refers to the logistics. The war is about the economy, and the specific performance of the economy lies in the logistics work on the battlefield.At that time, there were no highways, no planes, no trains, and a large amount of war supplies had to be transported to the front lines, requiring no less logistics personnel than the front lines. At the end of the 20th century, someone compared the logistics of China and the United States on the Korean battlefield.In the U.S. Army, a front-line soldier has a dozen logistics soldiers serving him; in China, a logistics soldier must serve hundreds of soldiers on the front line.Faced with such a huge war gap, it is a miracle that we were able to repel the American soldiers. Deng Zhi may have believed in miracles, but he never believed that miracles could not happen to him and Ren Shang. Looking back, the front line lost the war, people in the northwest counties were in panic, and prices rose sharply.The people couldn't afford to eat, people died one after another, and logistics food couldn't be delivered to the front line for a while. At this time, an urgent telegram changed Deng Zhi's plight, making him see the dawn of hope as if in the darkness.