I, Liu Bian, the hero

Chapter 90
Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, didn't know that a certain father and son had set a trap against him. After learning that Emperor Ling really went to patrol Hejian, he conspired with Xu You who had returned to Yecheng, and decided to carry out a mutiny to abolish the faint emperor by force. , Supporting the Marquis of Hefei.

In late August, Wang Fen was overjoyed when he received the order from Emperor Ling to mobilize his troops to conquer the Black Mountain Army. He hurriedly ordered Li Pan, the prefect of Weijun, to assemble the army, and at the same time sent someone to invite Chen Yi, the son of the former Taiwei Chen Fan. Day led [-] troops from Wei County to Hejian.

Knowing this, Chen Shao, the prefect of Julu County, went to intercept Wang Fen and asked the latter's purpose.

Wang Fen told Chen Shao: "I am ordered by the emperor to go to Hejian to conquer the Black Mountain Army."

That's how he told his [-] troops, and now he also told Chen Shao for this reason.

But Chen Shao didn't believe it. The reason was that Julu County was the most severely attacked county by the Black Mountain Army. Zhang Yan's "adopted father" Zhang Niujiao was shot and killed by Liu Ya during the attack on Yingtao County of Julu County. Therefore, although Zhang Yan later surrendered to the imperial court and turned the Black Mountain Army into one of the official troops, the old members of the Black Mountain Army, that is, the old department of Zhang Niujiao, still held hostility to Julu County, and from time to time they were in Julu County. Guo Dian, the former prefect of Julu, repeatedly reported to Liu Yan, the governor at the time, begging the court to revoke Zhang Yan's official post and crusade against the Black Mountain Army.

Later, when Guo Dian died of illness, the imperial court appointed Li Shao as the prefect of Julu. Li Shao was not as strong as Guo Dian, so he chose to back down to please the Black Mountain Army. Yes, but the problem is that the Black Mountain Army is mainly in Changshan, Zhaojun, Zhongshan, and Julu. What are you, Wang Fen, going to Hejian to conquer the Black Mountain Army?You should go to Zhaojun and Changshan.

Wang Fen also knew that he couldn't hide it from Li Shao, so he told Li Shao of his plan, and recruited Li Shao to join him in plotting against the Ling Emperor, but Li Shao was so frightened that he refused repeatedly.

So Wang Fen borrowed soldiers from Li Shao again, saying: "Since you dare not do justice for the world, you can lend me some soldiers. After the work is done, you will be rewarded."

It has to be said that Wang Fen was the governor of Jizhou in the first year of Zhongping, and he was one of the eight chefs. Although it was finally decided to lend five thousand soldiers to Wang Fen.

Of course, the name of borrowing troops was to help Wang Fen conquer the Black Mountain Army, and Li Shao knew nothing about it.

And the [-] troops were led by Li Shao's subordinate, Captain Sima Lang.

Sima Lang, that is, Sima Lang, the head of "Sima Bada", Sima Yi's elder brother, but Sima Lang is only 16 years old now, and his seven younger brothers are younger, so naturally there is no praise of "Sima Bada".

However, compared with his younger brother Sima Yi, Sima Lang's talent is not inferior. He passed the Confucian classics examination at the age of 12 and became a boy boy. People went to conquer Sima Lang, and after obtaining the permission of his father, Sima Fang, the secretary of Hanoi, Sima Lang was worshiped by Li Shao as the secretary of the mansion.

Especially after showing his talents, Li Shao liked him even more, but it was a pity that Sima Lang was too young to support him.

Until Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun rebelled in Jizhou the year before last, Sima Lang was ordered by Li Shao to assist Liu Yan, Meng Yi, and Liu Yu in hunting down thieves and appease the refugees. Li Shao took this credit to represent Sima Lang as the captain. Those who are like nephews.

Considering that even Li Shao felt that Wang Fen's actions were not right, Sima Lang naturally felt suspicious, and said to Li Shao privately: "The black mountain bandits are in the west, but Wang Jizhou led his army to the east to suppress the bandits, which may be strange. I heard Some time ago, His Majesty went to inspect the old house in Hejian, and now he is in Hejian County, could it be..."

Li Shao treated Sima Lang like a nephew, seeing that the latter sensed something was wrong, so he told Wang Fen's plan, Sima Lang was shocked: "This, this is treason!"

Li Shao shook his head and said, "It's not a rebellion, but an act of justice. Bodamo needs to ask more questions, just follow Wang Jizhou's orders."

Li Shao was kind to Sima Lang for supporting him, even if he said so, Sima Lang had no choice but to follow suit and led five thousand county troops to join Wang Fen.

Of course, before leaving, Li Shao also told Sima Lang not to divulge this matter.

At that time, Sima Lang was traveling with several other people, such as Ying Tao Chang Dong Zhao.

At the beginning of September, Wang Fen led an army of [-] to Anping State. First, he met Chen Yi, the son of Chen Fan, and then went straight to Hejian Jiedu, where Emperor Ling was, without stopping.

It has to be said that when Chen Yi learned of Wang Fen's intentions, he was taken aback. He never expected that Wang Fen would attack Lingdi. Xiang Kai went to Anping to join Wang Fen.

Compared with Chen Yi, Xu You, Xiang Kai and others who conspired with Wang Fen in history, in fact more people were involved, such as Li Pan, the prefect of Weijun, Geng Wu, the governor of the prefect, Biejia Minchun, and Li Zhizhong. Li, Qidu Wei Jushou, Cheng Huan, and generals Qu Yi, Zhang Yun, etc. Some of these people participated in Wang Fen's plot, but most of them didn't know it. They only knew that Wang Fen led them out this time to Conquering the Black Mountain Army, they did not expect Wang Fen to bring them to Anping State, which made them suspicious.

For example, Zhang He asked the riding captain Jushou in private: "Why did the governor lead us to go out to hunt for thieves, why did we come to Anping?"

Jushou didn't know how to answer, because during this time, Wang Fen also summoned them separately and told each other about the plans in his heart. Only then did Jushou know that the governor-in-chief was going to do such an earth-shattering event.

The idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism prompted Jushou to resist and even report this matter, but the rumors of the emperor's obscurity for many years also made Jushou doubt: if the assassin Wang Fen supported the Marquis of Hefei, would he be more wise than the current emperor? , is it beneficial to the world?

It was this complicated mood, coupled with Wang Fen's reputation as one of the eight chefs, that made Jushou keep silent on this matter.

During this period, Geng Wu, Min Chun, Li Li and others who knew about Wang Fen's plot and took the initiative to participate in it reprimanded the lieutenant soldiers not to discuss in private. Therefore, although most of the soldiers felt strange, they did not dare to investigate and could only obey orders. act.

Two days later, Qu Yi, who led a small force forward, joined Wang Fen in the Wusui area, and reported to the latter: "According to someone who sent someone to inquire, it is confirmed that the emperor is in Jiedu, and there are only the two armies of Huben and Yulin nearby. .”

Wang Fen was overjoyed. After all, in his opinion, the army he led this time had a total of 4000 people, and the combined number of Huben and Yulin was less than [-]. How can there be a failure?

He discussed privately with those who participated in it, and Xu You, who was appointed as Biejia, said: "Although there are few tigers and feathers, they are still the emperor's forbidden army. In order to prevent the soldiers from defecting, we should give you an excuse, for example, It is said that Zhang Yan held the emperor hostage and plotted against him."

Wang Fen was greatly impressed, and immediately ordered someone to inform the army that Zhang Yan had rebelled and held the emperor hostage while he was out patrolling Hejian, so Wang Fen led the army to rescue him.

Such a statement finally explained to generals like Zhang Xi in the army, but some people still have doubts about it: When Zhang Yan held the emperor hostage?Why has this message never been received?
But because of Wang Fen's reputation, even though some soldiers were suspicious, no one would have thought that Wang Fen would commit treason. After all, Wang Fen was one of the eight chefs, a model of good character and good character that the scholars of the world flaunted.

According to the simple thinking of most sergeants, Wang Jizhou, who is highly respected, would definitely not lead them to do evil things.

During this period, Xu You made another suggestion to Wang Fen: "In order to prevent someone from seeing through, it is better to attack the two armies of Huben and Habayashi at night."

Wang Fen thought so. After all, although he falsely claimed that Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army had kidnapped Lingdi, in fact there was no Black Mountain Army in Jiedu, only the Huben and Yulin armies. If he attacked during the day, his soldiers would be attacked by Huben. The Habayashi and Habayashi armies will inevitably have doubts when they counterattack, but if they attack at night, the possibility of exposure is relatively small.

So he immediately called the rich man in Peiguo, the soldier Cao he appointed to engage in Zhoujing, and ordered the latter to lead an army of [-] to attack the profanity first.

Zhou Jing took the order to go, and led five thousand Wei Jun troops to Jiedu first.

However, as soon as these 5000 people approached Jiedu, they were discovered by Cao Chun's Yubayashi Youqi. , Judging by the banner, it seems to be the soldiers and horses of Wei County."

Hearing this, the Son of Heaven laughed lightly and said: "Before Wang Fen asked me to send troops to fight against the Black Mountain bandits, why did the bandits come to Hejian?"

When the words fell, apart from Zhang Rang who laughed with him, only Liu Bian laughed lightly. Huan Dian, Cui Jun, Dong Zhong, and Dong Cheng all looked serious. Other than Cui Lie, someone already felt something was wrong, and asked them privately: "Taiwei Cao, Cui Situ, is there something wrong?"

Both Cao Song and Cui Lie were veterans of Liu Bian's side. They already knew about Wang Fen's plot to rebel. Hearing this, he smiled and comforted the officials and said, "You colleagues, don't worry. Your Majesty and Marquis Shi will make the decisions."

The two of them didn't tell everyone the truth. God knows, is there anyone among the officials who accompanied the emperor on the tour, who actually had the same thoughts as Wang Fen, and ran to inform Wang Fen after learning the truth?
As for Huan Dian, Cui Jun, Dong Zhong, Dong Cheng, Cao Chun and others, they have already taken strict precautions, including Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu who are currently stationed in the north of Hejian, waiting for Wang Fen to attack the emperor Guard moves.

On the night of the fifth day of September, Wang Fen's subordinate Zhou Jing led [-] troops to attack Jiedu, and crashed into the ambush set by the Huben army.

"kill!"

Following Huben Zhonglang's order from Cui Jun, Huben's army took the lead in attacking, and with a wave of arrows, they stunned Zhou Jing's soldiers.

It's not that Cui Jun cares about human life, in fact, he also knows that even if Wang Fen's plot is wrong, the soldiers under his command may not know the plot, but when it comes to the safety of the emperor, Cui Jun can only act first.

Of course, during the period of ordering the fight, he did not forget to declare his identity and disintegrate the fighting spirit of the enemy: "...Listen across the way, we are the tigers under the emperor's control..."

At that time, Zhang He was under Zhou Jing's command. After being ambushed by the Huben army, he wanted to fight back, but he was dumbfounded when he heard this.

What?Huben?
Isn't it Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army?
Many generals like Zhang Yun were also surprised and at a loss, so that the 800 troops were stunned by the [-] people of the Huben Army.

Seeing this, Zhou Jing was secretly anxious, and shouted loudly: "All soldiers obey the order. The emperor has been held hostage by Zhang Yan's rebel army, and the Huben army has rebelled against Zhang Yan. Kill him quickly and save your majesty!"

After all, this military officer who came from a rich man in Peiguo made a promise of money, and finally restored some fighting spirit in the army under his command.

The problem is that his words can deceive ordinary sergeants, but they cannot deceive generals such as Zhang He. Zhang He carefully looked at the Huben soldiers on the opposite side, and there was no sign that this Imperial Guard of the Son of Heaven was under the control of the Black Mountain Army.

This can't help but make them feel a fearful thought.

Could it be that it was not Zhang Yan who rebelled, but Wang Jizhou? ! ?
(End of this chapter)