Chapter 256: The Smoke of Gunfire Again

The first year of Zhongping was destined to be full of turbulence.

The raging rebellion of the moths and thieves had just come to an end, and before the government and the opposition had time to celebrate with drummers, the Qiang people in Liangzhou, in the northwest, rioted again.

The leader of the Qianghu tribe, Beigong Boyu, took advantage of the civil strife in the Han Dynasty to unite with the local powerful Song Yang and Huangzhong Yicong Hu leader Li Wenwen to launch a mutiny and rebellion.

In just a few weeks, the rebels conquered Yunwu in Jincheng County, killed Chen Yi, the guard of Jincheng County, and Leng Zheng, the captain of Huqiang; and ordered Bian Yun and Liangzhou of Xin'an County to engage in Han Yue robbery as hostages, and coerced the two to join the rebel army.

In order to prevent being wanted by the imperial court, the two changed their names shortly after joining the rebels. Bian Yun changed his name to Bian Zhang, and Han Yue changed his name to Han Sui.

Due to the prominent statement of the two in Liangzhou, as soon as the rebel leaders of Beigong Boyu and Li Wenwen discussed, they decided to elect Bian Zhang as the chief leader and Han Sui as the deputy.

With the addition of these two men, the progress of the rebellion can be described as rapid. It took less than a month to besiege Zuochang, the assassin of Liangzhou, who had not been in office for a long time, in Zhiji County.

Of course, Zuo Chang fell into such a field, and it was purely his own death.

The imperial court sent him to recruit troops to quell the rebellion, this guy was good, and took advantage of the opportunity of conscription to intercept tens of millions of military funds to fill his own pockets. As a result, the recruited Qiang and Xiaoyue clans were disgruntled, and rebelled in Lingju and killed the local governor.

The salvation army was not good, so it naturally helped the rebels a lot.

Fortunately, Hanyang Taishou Gaixun led the army to arrive in time, and Zuo Chang was able to escape death.

After this incident, Zuo Chang was deposed by the imperial court, and Liangzhou ushered in a new assassin Song Zhen (nie).

Song Zhen was a devout Confucian scholar, and he thought that in order to quell the rebellion, he could not rely solely on force, but should use benevolence to warm and touch. He believes that only by teaching the "Book of Filial Piety" among the people, when the rebels wake up and understand, they will naturally put down their weapons and surrender to the imperial court.

When the generals heard this, they almost fainted. They all told Song Zhen that this would not work, and it was better to seize the time to integrate the troops and meet the rebels.

Song Zhen did not believe in evil, and despite everyone's opposition, he resolutely put this suggestion on the court.

Soon, Liangzhou ushered in a new history of thorns, Yang Yong.

Yang Yong is in his forties and has had the experience of battlefield battles, but even so, he still can't stop the rebels' march.

Xia Yuxing, the new captain of the Qiang Guard, went to Hanyang County and encountered a fierce attack by Dian Wu, the leader of the Qiang Plant. Gaixun, who was stationed in Hanyang, once again led his army to the rescue, but suffered a crushing defeat in the nearby Hupan.

On the occasion of this battle, Xia Yu and Gai Xun fled, and the Han army lost more than 1,000 soldiers.

At this time, the local Han army in Liangzhou was obviously not enough to resist the rebels again, so he asked the imperial court for help.

With the escalation of the rebellion, the Qiang people in Beidi County, Anding County, Jincheng County, Longxi County, Heguan and other places in Liangzhou responded one after another.

These rebellious Qiang people gathered in Jincheng, and they united with Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou as generals, and commanded more than 100,000 soldiers.

At the same time, this alliance also means that the rebels have taken control of the strip on the west bank of the Muddy River.

The imperial court received a request for help from Liangzhou, and the brain case was also a headache.

Since the champion Hou Huo went to the sick and subdued the Xiongnu in Hexi, the Qiang people living in this place also joined the Han Dynasty. Later, Wang Mang usurped the government, which led to the Han Dynasty entering a period of civil strife, and the Qiang people took the opportunity to sit in Hexi, and eventually developed into a powerful force.

It was also since then that the Han Dynasty was mired in a protracted war with the Qiang.

The Qiang people practiced a military system of integrating soldiers and civilians, and their operations were mainly raids, using the mobility of cavalry to harass and loot everywhere. The Han Dynasty carried out several large-scale encirclement and suppression, but each time it surrendered within a few years, the Qiang rebelled again.

So much so that later it became a fixed pattern: rebellion --- suppression--- rebellion and rebellion--- and then suppression.

Before the arrival of the Han Dynasty's army, the army gathered to make a rebellion, and when the army quelled the chaos, it was broken into pieces.

In this long war, generation after generation of famous generals of the Han family fought in the Hexi Corridor, and the Qiang people were victorious or defeated, but they pressed the gourd to get up and scoop, and this side pacified and that side rebelled.

First Lingqiang was extinguished, Shenwolf Qiang was reversed, Zhongqiang was finished, and Dongqiang was chaotic......

The sprouts of Qiang rebellion are like leeks in the ground, which have just been cut and have begun to grow wildly one after another.

When the court learned of the Qiang rebellion, most of them were scolding their mothers in their hearts.

I thought that the Qiang people would be the same as before this time, just a small fight, until Beigong Boyu drove the army into Chencang, entered Kou Sanfu, and coerced Chang'an.

The bigwigs in the court woke up to the fact that Beigong Boyu was really here this time, and he wanted to do things properly.

So, he hurriedly transferred Huangfu Song, who stayed in Jizhou, back, with him as the commander, and sent troops to guard Chang'an.

After Huangfu Song arrived in Chang'an, the troops went out and fought with the rebels several times, but they were unable to defeat the enemy.

Seeing that the rebels did not retreat, Huangfu Song was helpless, fearing that the rebels would break through Chang'an and threaten the safety of Luoyang. Zhang Rang and others took the opportunity to propose that the imperial court reactivate Dong Zhuo, and be promoted to the general of the rebel Zhonglang, and go to Chang'an to assist Huangfu Song.

Dong Zhuo led 5,000 soldiers and horses and ran all the way to Chang'an. After joining up with Huangfu Song, he fought two more battles with the Qiang people in succession, but the result was also in vain.

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Gai Xun was born in a family of eunuchs in Liangzhou, and was promoted as filial piety when he was young, and later became the magistrate of Hanyang County. At that time, Wuwei County was too guarded to support the powerful in the imperial court, and did mischief in the local area, Liangzhou engaged in Su Zhenghe and prepared to impeach this person, and Liangzhou assassin Shi Lianghu was afraid of offending the powerful, so he wanted to kill Su Zhenghe, and consulted Gai Xun on this matter. Gai Xun had a grudge against Su Zhenghe, and someone persuaded Gai Xun to take the opportunity to take revenge, Gai Xun said: "No! It is disloyal to kill a good minister because of official business! It is unkind to take advantage of others' danger!" So he persuaded Liang Hu: "Feeding the eagle kite is to hunt, and killing the eagle kite because of hunting, what will you use to hunt in the future?" Liang Hu listened to him.

There was a rebellion in Liangzhou, such as Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou and others. The new Liangzhou assassin Shi Zuo Chang took advantage of the conscription to intercept tens of millions of military funds to fill his own pockets, Gai Xun insisted on dissuading, Zuo Chang was unhappy, so he sent Gai Xun to lead the army to garrison Ayang County, Hanyang County, facing the rebels. Zuo Chang originally thought that Gai Xun would definitely lose the battle, even if he did not die in battle, he could be executed by military law after his return, but unexpectedly, Gai Xun fought many times and successfully held Ayang County. Seeing that Ayang County could not be breached, the rebels turned to attack Jincheng County, killed Chen Yi, the Taishou of Jincheng County, coerced Bian Zhang and Han Sui to join the gang, and elected Bian Zhang as the leader.

Gai Xun led reinforcements to Ji County and reprimanded Bian Zhang and others for betraying the imperial court. Bian Zhang and Han Sui both said: "If Zuo Chang had listened to your words earlier and sent troops to rescue Jincheng County, maybe we would have been able to reform our ways, but now we are guilty and can't surrender anymore." So, Bian Zhang and others wept and left, lifting the siege of Ji County.