The Rise of the Cold Gate in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 162 Battle of Lanling ([-])

Huan Yi is a lonely person, so he always likes to look at the world with lonely eyes. At the same time, he has lofty ideals in his heart.

It should be noted that Huan Yiqing's talk skills are also top-notch. If he takes the path of a civil servant, with more than ten years of qualifications and a skill in his hands, it is no problem to think about it in Jiankang.

Well, the next best thing is that Huanwen belongs to the Longkang Huan family of Qiao State, and Huan Yi belongs to the Huan family of Qiao County, Qiao State. Almost, if he went to seek refuge with Huan Wen, he would probably be able to be reused, but Huan Yi didn't either.

Therefore, when Huan Yi saw the two young men in front of him, vowed to serve the country, he seemed to see his own shadow in the past, but after more than ten years, looking at the north, the pack of wolves, tigers and leopards, spying on the Central Plains, a sigh is not enough.

In the next two days, Huan Yi analyzed the military situation in the north for Xiao Qinzhi and Xu Miao. This was probably the best he could do to help the two fledgling young men.

As a result, Xiao Qinzhi's cognition was overturned. To be precise, the same thing in the mouth of the literati is completely different from the reality.

Huan Yi talked a lot, and he talked in detail. Maybe Xiao Qinzhi was going to Xuzhou, so he paid special attention to this part.

In the mouths of scholars in the imperial court, Xun Cishi is an extraordinary person. He was born in the Xun family of Yingchuan, with a prominent family background. He was the youngest governor of the Jin Dynasty. What Huan Yi said was another scene.

Xun Cishi became famous for the first time because he fled to marry Sima's family. His unruly style made him admired by many celebrities.

In the eighth year of Yonghe, when Yin Hao was in power, Xun Xian was activated. During the Northern Expedition, Xun Xian was responsible for farming in the rear for the needs of the army.

As a result, the Northern Expedition came to an end. Although Xun Xian did not participate in the war, he was promoted and stood on the cusp of the wind. He didn't have to do anything, and the official was promoted naturally.

In the 11th year of Yonghe, the Xianbei Duan Niche of the Duan family in Guanggu was besieged by the Yan army, led by the famous general Murong Ke, who urgently asked the Jin Dynasty for help, and the imperial court ordered Xun Xian, the governor of Xuzhou, to lead the rescue.

However, Xun Xian was afraid of Murong Ke's army, so he just went to the outer area symbolically, as a spectator, watching Duan Niang besieged with no way out, food was exhausted, and he ended up abandoning the city and surrendering, while Xun Xian turned his troops around , went to attack Yangcheng, a small county town whose walls were less than a foot high, beheaded Murong Lan, and handed over to the imperial court.

Last year, Xun Xian led the army to crusade and captured Yan Jun Taishan Taishou Jia Jian alive, but soon after, he was defeated by Yan Jun general Sima Yueming, and made himself very ill instead.

Suddenly, Xiao Qinzhi felt worried about the future of Xuzhou. Is it really good to follow an unreliable boss?

I heard that the one who succeeded Xun Governor was another unreliable and greedy Xi Tan.

Xiao Qin was stumped for a moment.

After hesitating in Guangling for two days, Xiao Qinzhi still decided to go to Xuzhou. Seventh Uncle, Ninth Uncle, and Xiao Shu are all in Xuzhou, and they cannot be allowed to lose their lives there for nothing.

At the time of farewell, Xiao Qinzhi asked Huan Yi to take a guide and headed north along Hangou. After three days, he finally arrived at Xiapi, but someone was already waiting, so he set off from Wujin. Galloping, the patriarch who never stops.

Last year, they dispatched troops to Taishan County and captured Jia Bing alive. Although they were still defeated later, Uncle Seven and Uncle Nine were promoted. Thousands of 500 people.

Therefore, just as Xiao Qinzhi showed his head in Xiapi, he was tied up to the barracks by a group of tyrannical soldiers. Facing the endless anger of the patriarch, Xiao Qinzhi first calmly analyzed the military situation ahead, and then explained his own cognition, In the end, he tried his best to convince the patriarch with emotion and reason.

In fact, since the patriarch learned about what Xiao Qinzhi did in Jiankang, he was frightened to death and lost his mind. Comparing the two, Xiao Qinzhi's coming to Xuzhou is nothing.

Xiao Qinzhi is determined to stay in Xuzhou, and the patriarch has nothing to do. Can he really tie him back home?
The next day, the patriarch took Xiao Qinzhi and Xu Miao to the pier in Pengcheng to visit Governor Xun.

When the patriarch took out Diao Taishou's handwritten letter, Xiao Qinzhi realized that the patriarch had come prepared, and that Xiao Qinzhi had already made a plan not to return home.

In the Governor's Mansion of Pengcheng, although Xun Xian was ill and could only lie on a couch, when a young talent from the left of Zhenjiang came to visit, he still received him.

Last year when Uncle Seven and Uncle Nine left home, Xiao Qinzhi wrote a letter to Inspector Xun, not without admiration, hinting that he wanted to come to Xuzhou, and the foundation had been laid in advance.

Now there is Diao Taishou's handwritten letter, Xiao Qinzhi was rejected for no reason, the entire interview process was uneventful, and Xiao Qinzhi was given an eighth-rank literary residence and a military post to join the army, Xu Miao It is the ninth grade, and a military post is attached to join the army.

After paying homage to the pier of the Governor's Mansion and returning to Xiapi, the patriarch carefully instructed Seventh Uncle, Ninth Uncle and Xiao Shu to take good care of Xiao Qinzhi, and then set off for Wujin.

The patriarch came and went in a hurry. He was very old and worried about the safety of his nephew, so he rushed from Wujin to Xuzhou on purpose. It was not easy!

The capital of Xuzhou—Pengcheng, a famous city in the history of China, where the Battle of Pengcheng in the Chu-Han War took place.

Pengcheng is located in a plain, surrounded by hills on all sides, close to Qilu in the north, Central Plains in the west, and accessible to the Jianghuai River and Huaihe River in the south.

As far as the southern regime is in control of Pengzhou, it can be attacked in advance and defended in retreat. As far as the northern regime is concerned, if it goes south to the Jianghuai River, it must take Pengzhou, which has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

Xiapi is located in the southeast of Pengcheng, at the confluence of Surabaya and Yishui, next to the Huaihe River, and is the southern gateway of Pengcheng. If Xiapi is lost, Pengcheng will be an isolated city.

The two armies led by the Seventh and Ninth Uncles were stationed in Xiapi, and they belonged to the Northern Army together with the other four armies.

Under the first army, there are about 200 people in the team, and there is one leader in the team. The remaining Shi and Wu systems are all in charge of Xiao's trilogy. In other words, the two armies led by the seventh uncle and the ninth uncle are almost private armies. Recruit refugees.

The refugee army should not be underestimated. In the past, there was a begging army, which beat the barbarians and threw away their helmets and armor. Later, there was a refugee army led by Xi Jian, which quelled the Su Jun rebellion. Therefore, the 500 people were the beginning of Xiao Qin. of capital.

The question then arises, what to do next?
After discussions between Xiao Qinzhi and Xu Miao, a decision was made to suppress the bandits.

The Yan army and the Qin army were constantly at odds in the north, and the Jin army and the Yan army often had small-scale battles on the south bank of the Yellow River. It coincided with the severe drought in Guanzhong, and the grain production was reduced. The common people could not survive, so they had to flee famine. Fallen grass is bandit.

If the people can't live on, they become bandits, and they are recruited into the army when they are given food. These days, if there is food, who wants to do the work of holding their head in the waistband of their trousers?
For this reason, Xiao Qinzhi rushed to poke the seventh and ninth uncles to train the team, and obtained the bandit suppression documents from Zhao Duwei. After a month of preparation, he was about to go out for a walk.

Unexpectedly, the war came suddenly. After the Yan army took Mount Tai, Qufu, and Rencheng, their momentum remained undiminished. The Jin army's control over the entire Qingzhou was broken.

If the strategic goal of the Yan army is achieved, Pengcheng will face the front of the Yan army, and the governor of Xuzhou will urgently dispatch troops to Lanling and Langya counties.

Therefore, Xiao Qinzhi and Xu Miao, who had just arrived for a month, joined the army to join the battle, and their destination was Lanling, Xiao's hometown a hundred miles away.

In midsummer, under scorching heat, the Northern Army led a group of about [-] infantry, plus supplies of food and grass. A total of more than [-] people hurriedly marched from Xiapi City to Lanling in the north, leaving Xiao Qinzhi and Xu Miao behind. The hairy boy had a good experience of the taste of marching and fighting.

The weather was dry, sweating profusely, and there were small groups of cavalrymen from the Yan army harassing them along the way. As long as there were a large number of soldiers, the whole army had to wear armors weighing tens of catties at once. When the cavalrymen left, they took off their armors. Let Xiao Qinzhi and Xu Miao abandon the fantasy of "feather fans and scarves, masts and sculls disappear in ashes and smoke".

Three days later, the army entered Lanling City on time, and Xiao Qinzhi and Xu Miao collapsed in the army tent from exhaustion, returning to the gentle hometown of Jiangzuo in their dreams.

In fact, in an era when countless people were killed and lives were like nothing, wars were far more cruel than those described in history books. In this rapid march, at least a dozen soldiers fell in the middle of the road. No one would pity these dozen soldiers life.

And next, more lives will be lost in the defensive battle at the top of Xia Ri City.

(End of this chapter)