"One lieutenant fell, and the other stood up."
Another lieutenant of Li Chong, Wang Yuanyuan of Guangyang, was also a restless master. An informant letter he wrote to the Northern Wei court about Li Chong's subordinate Shi Zuying who lied about military information and embezzled military funds not only caused Zu Ying to be dismissed from her post for investigation, but also caused Li Chong to be dismissed from his post.
The coach was dismissed, and the other deputy was arrested and convicted. It seems that apart from Yuan Yuan, no one is more suitable for the position of head coach than him. As a result, the Northern Wei Dynasty court followed the trend, corrected Yuan Yuan, succeeded Li Chong, and became the new governor of Beitou.
The house was leaking and it rained continuously all night. In the north, Po Liuhan Baling was at its peak, and civil unrest broke out on the northwest border.
In April of the fifth year of Zhengguang (AD 524), Helianen, a citizen of Gaoping Town (now Guyuan, Ningxia), rebelled and elected the chief of Chile, Hu Chen, as King of Gaoping, asking him to lead them to resist the corrupt Northern Wei Dynasty.
Then Xue Zhen, a native of Qinzhou (today's Tianshui, Gansu), killed Li Yan, the governor of Qinzhou, and rebelled. He elected Mo Zheda, a Qiang, as the king of Qin, and led them to rebel against the Northern Wei court. The old Mo Zhe was so excited that he died of a heart attack and died.
His son Mo Zheniansheng succeeded him and became King of Qin. However, his courage is much stronger than that of his old father, and a mere King of Qin cannot satisfy him. He claimed to be the emperor, established hundreds of officials, and changed the Yuan Tianjian.
After hearing the news of the civil unrest in the northwest, the Northern Wei Dynasty quickly appointed Yuan Xiuyi, the Minister of Civil Affairs, as Xidao Xingtai and led the troops to quell the rebellion.
However, Yuan Xiuyi fell ill before he took office (presumably he was pretending to be ill). There was no choice but to change the general in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The person who replaced him was named Xiao Baoyin.
Xiao Baoyin's experience is quite legendary. He was the younger brother of Xiao Baojuan, the last emperor of the Southern Qi Dynasty. When he was sixteen, he fled to the Northern Wei Dynasty due to the collapse of the Southern Qi Dynasty. At that time, Emperor Xuanwu Yuanke, the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, valued him very much and married his sister, Princess Nanyang, to him. From then on, Xiao Baoyin transformed from a down-and-out prince of the Southern Qi Dynasty to a noble relative of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
He was also considered to be good at fighting, and with the hatred of destroying the country, he repeatedly made military exploits in the war with Nanliang. This time he was once again entrusted with the important task of leading the army to fight against the civil unrest in the northwest.
After shooting the first bird, Xiao Baoyin took his general Cui Yanbo, the governor of the West Road, as the vanguard to attack Mo Zhe Niansheng first.
In wars in the cold weapon era, the bravery of generals played a crucial factor in the victory or defeat of an army. Brave and skilled generals can often improve the fighting spirit and morale of an army, allowing soldiers to fight bravely.
Cui Yanbo is such a general. He is the most powerful general in Xiao Baoyin's army. In the battle against Mo Zhe Niansheng, Cui Yanbo took the lead and fought bravely. The Northern Wei army was inspired by it and their morale was greatly boosted. Therefore, they defeated Mo Zhe Niansheng's army and wiped out many enemies.
Xiao Baoyin was not satisfied with the victory in the first battle, so he immediately appointed Cui Yanbo as the vanguard and led the army to attack Hu Chen. Unfortunately, this time because he underestimated the enemy, he fell into the trap of Hu Chen's general Wan Qi Chou Nu and was defeated. Cui Yanbo, a fierce general, was also hit by a stray arrow and died on the battlefield.
At this time, the Northern Wei Dynasty also underwent tremendous changes. Not long ago, Liu Teng died of illness, and Yuan Cha was unable to look after the former actual controller of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Empress Dowager Hu, who was under house arrest by the two of them. She turned her back and joined forces with Emperor Xiaoming Yuan Xu to kill Yuan Cha and regain control of the government. .
This Empress Dowager Hu is a "nymphomaniac" who only knows how to mess with the relationship between men and women and mess with government affairs all day long. She is not much better than Liu Teng and Yuan Cha. It was because they killed her lover and were afraid of Queen Mother Hu's revenge that they put her under house arrest.
A person who is greedy for pleasure and addicted to lust is also a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.
The Northern Wei court, headed by Empress Dowager Hu, was very worried that the Northern Wei army would be unable to deal with the rebels after losing consecutive battles with the rebels in the six towns, and would be completely defeated. In desperation, he had no choice but to send an envoy to Rouran with gold and silver treasures to seek help from the Rouran people.
There are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only eternal interests.
The people of Rouran were blinded by the gold and silver treasures. The treasures that usually had to be robbed were now in front of them. No fool wants the money delivered to your door! Under the financial offensive, the Rouran people readily agreed to send troops to help the Northern Wei quell the rebellion.
Anagui, the leader of Rouran, personally led 100,000 troops westward to attack Woye Town, and defeated the rebels in six towns in consecutive battles.
Seeing this situation, Yuan Yuan also led his army to attack Poliu Hanbaling. Unfortunately, he was defeated. However, the Northern Wei Dynasty did not dismiss him from his post, but allowed him to continue to lead troops in battles.
Maybe Yuan Yuan is a scheming person, or maybe the position of coach is not honorable at all. But these have no conflict with Yuan Yuan becoming an excellent counterinsurgency coach. Because he has two advantages that all successful people have: being able to employ people and being good at listening to opinions.
Nearly a hundred years later, Li Xiaogong, a member of the Li Tang clan who had a similar background to him, received the help of the military god Li Jingzhi and pacified half of the Tang Dynasty. Now, Yuan Yuan has also appointed someone to join the army to help him put down the rebellion. This person is Yu Jin, a famous general who ranks among the 64 generals of the Wumiao Temple.
Faced with an unfavorable situation, Yu Jin gave Yuan Yuan an idea: countermeasures.
Although Ba Ling's men in Po Liu Han were numerous and powerful, they had different nationalities, people's hearts were divided, and there were many internal conflicts. As long as you know your interests and benefits to them, and then offer money and beautiful women, you won't be afraid of anyone not rebelling.
Yuan Yuan readily accepted it and sent Yu Jin as an envoy to say surrender.
This strategy was very effective. Niliehe, the chief of Gaoche in the west, was persuaded by Yujin to lead more than 30,000 people under his command to surrender to Yuanyuan.
Originally Yuan Yuan was happy to accept his surrender. However, Yu Jin gave him a better idea: use the enemy of Qi Liehe as bait to attract Baling of Po Liuhan to pursue him. As for them, they set up an ambush and rushed out while Po Liuhan Baling was chasing Ni Liehe. They would definitely defeat Po Liuhan Baling.
Yuan Yuan happily accepted Yu Jin's suggestion again.
In this way, the army led by Po Liuhan Ba Ling to pursue the rebellious Ni Liehe unfortunately entered the ambush circle of the Northern Wei army and was severely defeated. On the way to retreat, they were attacked again by the Rouran army, and one of the soldiers who fell was wounded and died.
More than 200,000 rebels were leaderless and had no choice but to surrender to Yuan Yuan.
Their identities also changed, from rebels to prisoners. Since ancient times, handling large-scale captives has been a troublesome matter. After all, not everyone can do what Bai Qi and Xiang Yu did to kill hundreds of thousands of prisoners at once. No matter how corrupt the Northern Wei Dynasty was, it would not be so cold-blooded and kill the former people without mercy.
The six towns in the north were almost razed to the ground during the war. The most urgent thing for the Northern Wei Dynasty at present is to find a place to resettle these more than 200,000 prisoners.
Yuan Yuan submitted a memorial to the Northern Wei court: he hoped to establish counties north of Hengzhou to accommodate more than 200,000 captives. The climate and customs in this area are very similar to those of the six towns, which can eliminate the hatred of these captives towards the Northern Wei Dynasty to the greatest extent. Then, give them a helping hand so that they can live and work in peace and contentment. In this way, the possibility of the more than 200,000 captives surrendering and rebelling again is extremely slim.
Yuan Yuan's opinion was very correct throughout the Northern Wei Dynasty. It's a pity that Queen Mother Hu was addicted to male sex and couldn't extricate herself. As far as she was concerned, the rebellion was put down, as long as it did not disturb her and her lover's happiness, and everything else was left alone.
She rejected Yuan Yuan's opinion, and then made a stupid move, a stupid move that could change the fate of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In the name of the Northern Wei Dynasty, she issued an order to place more than 200,000 captured rebels in six towns in Ying (now Hejian City, Hebei Province), Ji (now Jizhou City, Hebei Province), and Ding (now Ding, Hebei Province). Prefectures and cities) three prefectures. These more than 200,000 prisoners also had a unique code name, "Jianhu".
The three prefectures of Ying, Ji, and Ding are the gathering areas of the Han nationality, and they usually make a living by farming. In the six multi-ethnic northern towns, nomadic people make up the majority, and they mainly engage in grazing on weekdays. How can people get used to letting nomadic people go to farm instead of grazing? Besides, there is only so much land in the three prefectures, and the original Han people could not even cultivate enough by themselves. How could there be any extra land to distribute to the more than 200,000 people who settled down as households?
What's more, at this time, large-scale droughts and floods were occurring in Hebei. The Northern Wei Dynasty once again acted as a hands-off shopkeeper, turning a blind eye to the disaster, and did not provide any assistance to the more than 200,000 people who had to settle down.
I can’t live anymore, what can I do?
Some people chose to flee south in search of a chance of survival. And some people chose to continue to rebel.
Du Luozhou, a former citizen of Rouxuan Town who was placed in Shanggu (now Huailai County, Hebei Province), took the lead in rising up, gathering people to revolt, and changed his title to "True King". After raising troops, they defeated the Northern Wei army in succession and captured the city and territory, which was unstoppable.
As soon as the news of Du Luozhou's rebellion reached Dingzhou, Yang Zhen, who was taking refuge in Zhongshan, despaired.
Originally, he fled from Wuchuan Town to Zhongshan County to avoid disaster. But the Northern Wei Dynasty got confused and settled 200,000 people in the three prefectures of Ying, Ji, and Ding in Hebei. After the resettlement was completed, they ignored them and allowed them to destroy themselves. Doesn’t this force them to rebel?
You know, the Zhongshan County where they took refuge was in Dingzhou! This is like stepping out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den.
Yang Zhen wanted to escape and took his family far away. But he couldn't escape because he was General Jianyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty and had a military position. Moreover, his old Yang family had been favored by the Northern Wei Dynasty for generations, and the idea of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" had been engraved in Yang Zhen's bones. He could not betray the emperor and the country.
He can't escape, but his son Yang Zhong has to escape. No matter what, he, Yang Zhen, has to leave a heir for the Yang family! Under Yang Zhen's arrangement, Yang Zhong said goodbye to his father and joined the ranks of refugees heading south. Yang Zhong knew clearly in his heart that when he left, he would say goodbye forever. From now on, he will never see his father again. (Indeed, in 526 AD, Yang Zhen led his army against Xianyu Xiuli, but was defeated and killed because he was outnumbered.)
This year is AD 525; this year, Yang Zhong is 18 years old; this year, Yang Zhong loses his home, his family, and his father. It was also from this year that Yang Zhong's wandering career officially began.
Yang Zhong was like duckweed, walking aimlessly along with the procession of refugees heading south. He didn't know what was waiting for him ahead; he didn't know where his destination was; he didn't know what kind of situation he would face in the future. All he knew was that he wanted to live. Only by living can you have the opportunity to change everything.
Yang Zhong fled with the refugees and came to Mount Tai, Shandong. Here he stopped. He doesn't want to leave, he wants to stay. Because, he met a person, the most important person in his life, his wife - Lu Kutao.
Lu Kutao, an ordinary civilian woman in Taishan County, Shandong Province, with an ordinary name, ordinary family background (can be considered poor), ordinary appearance, everything is ordinary. But Yang Zhong fell in love with such a woman out of hand.
Yang Zhong's fall in love with Lu Kutao was not impulsive. But Lu Kutao's kindness, gentleness, and strength deeply moved him. Lu Kutao made him feel the warmth of home and gave him the idea that "this is the person he will be for the rest of his life."
Lu Kutao also fell in love with Yang Zhong uncontrollably. Yang Zhong, who was born as a general, was tall, mighty, and handsome. Lu Kutao, an ordinary man, had never seen such a man in his daily life! Therefore, Lu Kutao was deeply attracted to Yang Zhong as soon as he saw him.
"Tortoise vs. mung bean", this is probably the truth!
Of course, the two got married, and the young couple lived their little life sweetly.
At this time, Nanliang, which was opposed to the Northern Wei Dynasty across the Huaihe River, saw the civil strife in the Northern Wei Dynasty and displayed the "best virtue" in human history - taking advantage of the situation to rob it. The Emperor of Nanliang, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, sent troops to Shandong, plundered a lot of people, and brought the supplies back to Nanliang. Yang Zhong and Lu Kutao were both among those plundered by Nanliang.
Poor young couple, not long after their sweet life after marriage, they encountered such an unfortunate thing.
Yang Zhong felt helpless and finally lived a stable life. Now he became a prisoner of Nanliang and had to live a wandering life again. What to do next? Run away! it's out of the question! Even if he was lucky enough to escape from Nanliang's defenders, what would happen to his wife Lu Kutao. Now, he is not alone anymore, he has a family! I have no choice but to take one step at a time and resign myself to fate!
As for Lu Kutao, being captured meant that she would never be separated from her parents. Even though Lu Kutao was very sad and scared in her heart, now that what happened, she could only face the cruel reality. What's more, "if you marry a chicken, follow the chicken, if you marry a dog, follow the dog." Since she married Yang Zhong, Yang Zhong will be her only one from now on. Wherever Yang Zhong goes, she can only follow him.
After arriving in Nanliang, Yang Zhong was "favoured". Oh, it's not that he was attracted by some masculine dignitary, but that he was attracted by the general of the Nanliang Army. The reason why I fell in love with him was very simple. Yang Zhong was tall, mighty, and handsome. At first glance, he was a good soldier.
Naturally, Yang Zhong entered the army of Nanliang and stayed there for several years. In the past few years, Yang Zhong has figured out a truth: these are troubled times, troubled times of cannibalism.
Born in troubled times, it was impossible for him to live a peaceful life and have a stable home. The only thing he can rely on is his martial arts. He will use his hands to build a bright future on the battlefield with sword and gun.
