Chapter Ninety-Five: Saving the Peril
Although the Great Qin Empire was hit hard in the First Battle of Weishui, it was more than the outcome in history, because the Northern Expedition of the Jin Kingdom was a few months earlier, because Duan Ye made a mistake and Lu Guangdong returned 1 year earlier, and because Fu Jian returned to Chang'an half a year earlier, the skeleton of the Qin Empire was still there, and once Fu Jian regained his self-confidence and took decisive measures, the remaining forces of the Qin Empire began to mobilize rapidly.
Shi Yue did not wait for the edict to arrive and had already led the army to retreat eastward, and Fu Pi finally made up his mind after discussing with the strategists for a whole day and night, declaring that the three cities of Yecheng, Zhongshan and Handan were under martial law, prohibiting any troop transfer, and then Fu Pi immediately repaired a letter to Murong Trai, but did not make a big attack on Murong Trai in the letter, but persuaded him warmly, counting Fu Jian's favor to the Murong family over the years, and repeatedly expressed his belief in Murong Trai's loyalty.
received the letter Murong Trai and did not say anything, and at this time, Fu Jian's edict and the carriage with Murong Trai's family also arrived, Murong Trai tried his best to disagree with the public, or personally went out of the horse, received the edict with the courtier's courtesy, and then sent the envoy back after a generous banquet, and said that he would send the letter to His Majesty the King of Heaven in a few days.
Maybe it's the emotional card that has worked, maybe Murong Trai is not ready, anyway, according to the news of the scouts, the number of Murong Trai's army is getting bigger and bigger, and the generals are shouting and shouting and killing are becoming more and more unscrupulous, but Murong Trai has not raised the anti-flag after all.
In addition, it is reported that Murong Chui and the Murong De brothers have quarreled several times recently, but their quarrels naturally want to drive away irrelevant people, so they have not heard what they are saying, but the sound is too far. Although I can't really hear it, I can conclude that they must have quarreled.
Anyway, this is good news, Murong Chui moved one day late, it gave Fu Jian one more day, what he needed most was time, time, the New Year was coming soon, although there would not be too many swords and soldiers during the New Year, and after the most dangerous half a year, as long as those rebels did not make any big deals, the local powerful factions and gentry who were on the sidelines would still stand on their side after all.
At the same time, Fu Jian unequivocally issued a general mobilization order, calling on the world's troops to enter Guanqinwang, Warrior Chuan, Chengdu, Tianshui, Anding and other places, as long as there is no military disaster and no rebellion, the local magistrates are edicted, leaving only the garrison troops, all the other armies are led by military commanders, and begin to march towards Chang'an day and night, to Fu Jian's surprise, except for Murong Hong, Murong Chong, Zhai Bin and other places have de facto rebellion, there is no objection to other places, The second-line troops scattered throughout the country began to converge towards Chang'an in a steady stream.
At the same time, the Di people, who had been scattered to various places by Fu Jian to strengthen their rule, also rushed to Chang'an voluntarily under the leadership of the Lizheng or tribal leaders, and those who were far away also immediately mobilized, formed garrisons, formed militia groups, and began to prepare for battle to defend their country.
In addition, the prince Fu Hong personally went into the people, recruited troops in Guanzhong, promised a generous reward, warriors and people from all over the country joined the army, and won 60,000 troops in ten days, and what shocked the Qin Empire was that the Han people in Guanzhong, many people did not rejoice that the Jin army was coming, because thirty years ago, the Huan Wen army had arrived in Bashang, and the people ate pot pulp to welcome the king, but in exchange for Huan Wen's indifference, and finally ran back in disgrace, which disappointed the father and elder of Guanzhong, and since then he has been quite supportive of the Qin Empire and Fu Jian, Now that Fu Jian's regime is in danger, it is the Xianbei Murong family that is wreaking, the lesser of two evils, of course they did not hesitate to stand on Fu Jian's side.
So, in just a few days, 20,000 good sons and daughters of the Han family joined the Fenwu Army formed by Fu Hong, and many even all the prime of life of the whole family joined together to express their determination to resist to the end, never compromise, and never leave a way back.
When the news spread, the morale of the Guanzhong army was greatly boosted, and the government and the opposition rejoiced.
The New Year is coming, according to the custom, Fu Jian took the queen, the prince, and the princesses to the gate of the palace and greeted the people of the city.
The people came a lot, still dressed up, still standing in an organized manner, and now the prince Fu Hong is in charge of the affairs of Chang'an City, and organizes all this in an orderly manner.
Everything is done as a ritual, sacrifices to heaven and earth, prayers for a good harvest, prayer for good fortune, for the protection of the earth, mourning for heroes, looking forward to the future, and because of the good organization, and the fact that after the continuous bad news, it has been good news for some time recently, both the government and the people, and now there is a feeling of whether it is extremely Tai or not, so the atmosphere seems to be better than in the past.
Fu Jian, who was standing on the jade steps in front of the palace, looked at the rejoicing soldiers and civilians below, and looked at the ministers around him with renewed enthusiasm in his eyes, and his heart was also very agitated.
I am only 45 years old, I still have at least 20 years to go, I still have a complete Guanzhong Longyou, Saibei Yunzhong, Shandong Liaodong and other large lands, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops willing to die for me, and there are capable sons, I must be able to turn the tide, I will definitely be able to.
Xie An, Murong Chui, let you be proud for a while, what's the matter, in the end, it will be me who will dominate the world, and it can only be me, you can see it!
Bursting with confidence, Fu Jian, whose waist was straightened again, waved his hand slightly, and the sound of long live resounded in Chang'an City, spreading far and wide......
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If the world is a big chess game, then Liangzhou is at least a very complicated small chess game, the north wind has begun to howl, and the sky is cloudy for three or four consecutive days, but I don't know why? This snow just doesn't come down.
The only green on the land has long been gone, and what is even more terrifying is that due to the prolonged drought, coupled with the sudden drop in temperature and the frost and snow, black frost has appeared in many places.
And people with a little common sense know that hoarfrost actually plays a protective role in plants, and black frost is like a soul that asks for life, and now the black frost, Duan Ye knows that next year's grassland and irrigated farmland in the Hexi Corridor will probably be very sad, and at that time, I don't know how many people will face the threat of survival, and the life of people in troubled times is not as good as dogs!
Guzang is the seat of Liangzhou, is the most important city in the Hexi Corridor today, is the richest and most prosperous city, is also the most important military town, now there are more than 200,000 residents, the people of a city account for a considerable proportion of the entire Liangzhou, and now Liangzhou Thorn Shi Liang Xi is stationed here.
The city wall of Guzang City is winding, not as boxy as the big city of the Central Plains, but narrow and dragon-shaped, so it is also known as "Wolong City", under Wuwei County, so there is a very interesting situation, Guzang City is not only the governance of Wuwei County, but also the governance of Liangzhou, which has caused the situation that Lord Assassin Shi and Lord Taishou are working in the same city, but Wuwei Taishou is the former defection in front of the army, and he killed Peng Ji, the father of Peng Feng, the son of Liang Yin, who assassinated Liang Yin.
By the way, although Peng Feng made a great contribution at that time, but in any case, his behavior of suddenly turning back before the battle and killing friends for many years still made many people despised, and at that time, in order to do a full set of plays, Peng Feng also killed a lot of Lu Guangjun's soldiers, although everyone now knows that he is acting, but how can there be mustard in his heart.
Peng Feng was also very interested, and offered to hand over the military power to follow the festival honestly, but Lu Guang was even more skilled, announcing in front of everyone that Peng Feng's military power was completely retained, and his subordinates were still under his control, and he was allowed to recruit troops to make up for the gap according to the army quota, and the military salary was paid by Lu Guang.
However, it is not good to let Peng Feng lead people to attack Liangzhou again, Peng Ji has not openly rebelled after all? Therefore, Lu Guang waved his pen and let Peng Feng become the Taishou of Jiuquan County and stay in the rear, and Peng Feng went happily, Jiuquan is rich, but it is a good place, and he was promoted compared to Peng Feng back then.
The only one who was a little dissatisfied with this was Duan Ye, in Duan Ye's opinion, Jiuquan was his own land, but as soon as Lu Guang spoke, Duan Ye could not object, so he could only admit the fait accompli and congratulate Peng Feng.
At this time, Duan Ye and others, disguised as caravans, and came to Guzang City, five miles outside the city, and the tall city wall of Guzang in the distance had already appeared in sight.
"Owner, why do we have to come to Guzang City?" Liu Guo, who turned into an entourage, still didn't understand a little, their purpose was to kill Fu Luo and cut off the possibility of Fu Luo accepting the remnants of Liangzhou and the remnants of Liang Yin, but to do all this, it was difficult to say, but it was easy to say, because the core figure of all this was Fu Luo, and killing Fu Luo would be a hundred.
Fu Luo must enter Guzang City, but according to the previous information, Fu Luo should still be in the east of Guzang City now, so according to Liu Guo's idea, he directly ambushed in the east of Guzang City, and when Fu Luo appeared, everyone rushed out together and cut him down.
Liu Guo's idea can't be said to be unreasonable, what Duan Ye brought this time is the elite of the elite. Although there are less than thirty people in total, Duan Ye is confident that if these thirty people are well-planned and well-prepared, there will be no problem even if they deal with the personal guards of more than 100 people, besides, now Fu Luo is still an independent third party after all, or in the words of later generations, he is called an excellent professional manager, he currently has no soldiers in his hands, some are prestige, command ability, and Liang Xi has resources, before the combination of the two, even if Zhang Tianxi wants to intervene, it is impossible to intervene on a large scale, Liang Xi may send someone to escort or even greet him, But now the situation in Liangzhou is too delicate, and if Liang Xi sends too many people out of the city too far, there may be unpredictable results.
Besides, the assassination is in the dark, the other is in the light, poisoning and plotting and other methods can be used, and the odds are actually quite big.
However, Liu Guo is a soldier, and Duan Ye is trying to be a politician.
Soldiers and politicians can never be completely identical, Duan Ye took over this matter, and finally came out once, but it was impossible to be satisfied with just getting Fu Luo's head, and it was easy to have a chance to leave Lu Guang's nose to do something, how could Duan Ye let it go, even if Lu Guang still had eyeliner by his side, even Duan Ye knew who that eyeliner was, so what's the matter.
There are some things that can be tacitly understood and face-to-face, and it will be fine.