Chapter 202
In August of the second year of Zhongping, Situ Zhang Wen held the rituals and appointed General of the Cavalry, took Yuan Pang of Jinwu as his deputy, appointed General Dong Zhuo as his general of defeating the enemy, and Zhou Shen, the commander of Jinjin, Xiaoping, was appointed General of the Conquering the enemy...
There were many disasters and difficulties in the two years of Zhongping. First, a large-scale epidemic occurred in Luoyang in January... When the news came back to Dong Hu's ears, he suspected that the epidemic was related to Huangfu Song's excessive massacre. Anyone who had been in the army for a long time knew one thing, that is, after the war, the battlefield must be cleaned up and the corpses must be buried to avoid rot and caused the epidemic. Huangfu Song did not bury the corpses, but instead made one corpse by Jingguan, with 100,000 corpses.
The main part of the soldiers involved in the quelling of the rebellion were Luoyang soldiers. In October and November, Huangfu Song ended all the quelling of the rebellion. At this time, the Qiang people in Liangzhou began to rebel. When the emperor ordered Huangfu Song to lead his troops back to Luoyang, it was this time period.
In the winter, the Beijing Temple was held in Beijing. Because the weather was cold, the bacteria and virus were suppressed. In addition, the soldiers were healthy. Even if someone got sick occasionally, others might not care too much. They thought they were suffering from the cold. Because the weather was cold, the stomach was cold. However, after returning to Beijing, they lived with women, children, elderly and weak, and the weather was prone to outbreaks of epidemics when the weather became warmer.
The army's return to the garrison is the same as the large ships entering the port. They often need to stay in the barracks to isolate for a period of time. One is to restore the peace of the soldiers after the war, and the other is to reduce the occurrence of quarantine epidemics. After all, the soldiers are fighting thousands of miles away, and no one can determine what kind of quarantine epidemics and bacteria they have brought from outside.
Children from later generations were injected with countless vaccines since childhood to gain resistance to viruses and bacteria, but the Han Dynasty did not have these vaccines. Even when Dong Hu was in another time and space, there were still epidemics in one way or another. Every time the epidemic came, not only did the school holidays, but his mother always locked him at home, let alone the Han Dynasty who didn’t know anything or did not understand viruses and bacteria correctly?
Dong Hu is most certain that the epidemic in Luoyang has a lot to do with the tens of thousands of soldiers led by Huangfu Song, but he could not say much, so he could only formulate stricter hygiene and isolation regulations, call generals at all levels to his side, and explain the importance of hygiene more strictly.
In January, there was a severe epidemic in Luoyang, and in February, there was a fire in Nangong. The emperor added taxes to all the fields in the world. In March, Zhang Niujiao, Zhang Yan and others led tens of thousands of Black Mountain troops to plunder the counties and counties around the Taihang Mountains. Soon after, the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in various places occupied the mountains as kings and also plundered various places...
In the second year of Zhongping, the Han Dynasty did not get a breath because it pacified the Yellow Turban Army last year, but became even more embarrassing. There were Yellow Turban thieves who occupied the mountains and became kings in the territory. The nine counties of Liangzhou were divided by tens of thousands of Qiang people and invaded Youfufeng from the north and west directions. They were worried and trapped inside and outside. The court could only temporarily recruit Heishan Army and focus on pacifying the rebellion of the Qiang people in Liangzhou.
The Heishan Army was different from the past. The court did not break up the Heishan Army and settled the farming system because of this, but retained the Heishan Army as a whole, making the Heishan Army an existence as a military town. This was the beginning of the real chaos in the world.
It was not that the court did not understand the danger of letting the Heishan Army become a military town alone, but there was no good method inside and outside the court. If it did not agree, the Heishan Army would not agree to pacify, and would plunder the counties and counties around Taihang Mountain, which would always become a cancer in the territory. If there was no Liangzhou Qiang people rebelling, the court could send heavy troops to siege and intercept them. The key was that the Qiang people in Liangzhou rebelled, and Huangfu Song had to lead the elite imperial court to rescue the Sanfu in Chang'an.
Dong Hu knew the general trend of the world and knew that the court had no choice. After being under Guangzong City, he gave up the idea of continuing to intervene in the Han Dynasty's politics. Before the arrogant wealthy families did not feel displaced in the war and the pain of slaughtering the whole family, they would only fight to suppress heresies like Dong Hu. If they wanted to cooperate with each other, they would not think about it.
Knowing the general trend of the world, just follow the trend, so Dong Hu ran to the north of Bingzhou to lie down, so he convinced Dong Zhuo to lie down honestly to wait for the weather...
After Xu Rong escorted Gao Wang back to Beijing safely, he came to the Dong Zhuo Han Bing Camp in Meiyang County overnight. It was not until mid-August that Xu Rong stood in front of Dong Zhuo with his men.
Dong Zhuo asked Xu Rong to go to Bingzhou, with the purpose of asking Dong Hu for soldiers, and wanted to station troops in Beidi County, launch an attack on the rebels from behind, and cooperate with him to defeat the thieves who entered Youfufeng in one fell swoop.
The nine counties of Liangzhou, the northern part, and the two counties of Anding are on the north side of Youfufeng. The Youfufeng is the Guanzhong Plain. The northern counties of Anding County are all loess hills or mountains with ravines. However, this does not mean that the Qiang people, mainly cattle and sheep, cannot go south and go directly into Sanfu. The reason why the rebel Qiang people in the Beidi County went west to join the Qiang people in Anding County, then went south along Longshan to enter Youfufeng. The main reason is that the Qiang people in these two counties can be back-to-back with the Qiang people in Hanyang County, forming a condensed fist, which can confront the Han soldiers who quell the rebellion in Hanyang County, like the horns on the head of the bull. If the war is not going well, the rebel Qiang people can retreat to Hanyang County and retreat all the way...
The rebel Qiang people in Beidi County and Anding County went south to Youfufeng along Longshan. After Dong Hu seized the three Hetao counties, he could send troops from Shuofang County to the south to the Beidi County, and follow the steps of the rebel Qiang people to the back of the thieves. Dong Zhuo could have seen it with Dong Zhuo before and after Dong Hu wanted to send troops to the three Hetao counties. After the ministers inside and outside the court could clearly see Dong Hu's intentions, but Dong Zhuo saw it first, and then he had the initiative to let Xu Rong go north to Yanmen County and seize the initiative in the battlefield first. But now, Xu Rong actually ran back!
When Dong Zhuo and a group of Liangzhou generals ran back when they saw Xu Rong, Dong Zhuo frowned and was displeased. He wrote his own handwritten letter. Could it be that the little bastard dared not to obey the order?
Snorting coldly in front of him, Xu Rong only used false words to make excuses. When Dong Zhuo heard the excuses, how could he not know what was going on? After driving everyone away, Xu Rong said one by one of the words Dong Hu said that day. Dong Zhuo's expression became even more serious, and he walked back and forth in the central army tent for a long time...
"I thought that Huwa's judgment was probably true, and the world... the world might be in chaos."
Xu Rong lowered his head and said, since Wuyuan County heard Dong Hu's words, he had not felt much at ease in his heart. The more he thought about it, the more he agreed with it.
Dong Zhuo paused, looked at Xu Rong who was lowering his head and clasped his fists, and said seriously: "Thuwa looked at him as stupid as he was sometimes reckless, but he was a very cautious boy. In your opinion, is it better to ask for five thousand soldiers in Beidi County, or to go to Ganlang Valley?"
Xu Rong's face was not dissatisfied, and still stood up with his fists and said solemnly: "When Mo Jiang came, the court was quarreling endlessly, but Dr. Cai had made a decision as the prefect of Beidi County. However, Dr. Cai was only a literati, and Hu Wa would never allow others in the court to take charge of Dongbuyicon. If Mo Jiang took the lord's order, he would definitely be able to command this army. But as Hu Wa said, if Mo Jiang went to Beidi County, the court would definitely further suppress the lord."
Dong Zhuo sighed in his heart. After rolling in the Han Dynasty system for twenty years, how could he not see the danger under the "high merits and great powers"? What's more, the court has been suppressing him.
"You are right. If you go to Beidi County, Zhang Wen will definitely try every means to suppress us. As for Huwa... the Hun boy calls himself "I" and probably he doesn't care whether the court is angry or not."
Dong Zhuo felt a little frustrated and cowardly. He hadn't called himself king yet. The boy was so arrogant that he said "I'm the king". Although the boy was talking about the Qiang King, that's also the king, right?
Xu Rong smiled bitterly in his heart, and he was also very worried about Dong Hu, who was frightened at every turn. Not only him, I believe that any Liangzhou general scratched his head like this.
"The last general tends to be what Hu Wa said, no matter who leads troops in Beidi County, even if Hu Wa does not lead the troops south and only passes this news into the thieves' army, the thieves will inevitably frighten and flee. It is not difficult to repel the thieves invade Youfufeng, but the five thousand cavalry in Ganlang Valley are a one-step killing chess!"
"Huwa has entered from Beidi County, and the thieves can retreat from Weishui Road to Hanyang County. The thieves have a retreat route to escape west. Huwa has entered the three Hetao counties since July. At this time, the thieves' army may have already obtained the news that Huwa's vanguard entered Beidi County. It would be difficult to launch a sudden attack, but others do not know about Huwa's hiding soldiers in Ganlang Valley."
"The thieves knew that Huwa had occupied the Beidi County, and they probably had the intention to retreat at this time, but they did not know that Huwa's five thousand young cavalry were hiding in the Ganlang Valley. Five thousand cavalry could enter Lintao from Shenlang Valley, and then cut off the thieves in Anding County in half and attacked our army in front and behind. The thieves would definitely be defeated. Although they could not easily pacify the thieves, they could drive the remaining thieves to Jincheng Pass and drive them into the four northwest counties of Liangzhou."
Dong Zhuo has been a long-time general. He knew the authenticity of Xu Rong's words, so he nodded slowly, and then smiled bitterly.
"As you said, the 5,000-horse hiding in the Ganlang Valley is a one-step killing chess, but... but we don't get any benefits, all the benefits are cheaper than that.
As soon as Huangfu Song left the Sanfu of Chang'an, the court asked Zhang Wen to preside over the quelling of the rebellion. He did not say that the front and back attacks needed to get Zhang Wen nodded. Even if he forced the front and back attacks, the greatest contribution would definitely fall on the head of the chief general Zhang Wen. He forced the troops to send troops without orders. Even if he won, he would have to be punished severely afterwards, but if he told the story of the hidden soldiers in the Ganlang Valley...
"You must never let others know that the tiger baby is hiding soldiers in Ganlang Valley!"
Dong Zhuo snorted coldly.
"snort!"
"I want to take advantage of us... I don't even think about it!"
If he was the chief general, Dong Zhuo would not hesitate to attack the rebel thieves from front to back, now...
"Tomorrow you will take Huwa's four adopted sons to Ganlang Valley. Without our military orders, you are not allowed to run out at will!"
"snort!"
"If you want to keep suppressing us...then let the world be in chaos! Let's see which one is unlucky in the end!"
Dong Zhuo was extremely dissatisfied with the court repeatedly suppressing himself, and fully recognized Dong Hu's "Qianlong in the Abyss" plan, but he still looked at Xu Rong with a serious look on his face.
"You are not allowed to talk to anyone about these words from Huwa! If we hear someone else's words from Huwa, we will kill your head!"
Xu Rong hurriedly clasped his fists solemnly.
"promise!"
Chapter completed!