Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 440 Chasing the Central Plains ([-])
Four years later

Yanhou 150 Nine Years Summer (369 Years)
The rice planted in spring has just been harvested, and the rice planted in autumn has not yet started. Just a few months ago, Murong Ke, the pillar of Murong Yan Kingdom, died of illness.

Therefore, Huan Wen resisted all opinions and chose to launch the Northern Expedition in the summer of this year, with a total of [-] cavalry.

Although Qianyan had an army of 20, most of them were used to guard against refugee uprisings. They were only responsible for public security warfare, and only [-] were capable of conducting large-scale field battles.

Along the way, Huanwen was like a broken bamboo, and the people in the Central Plains all ate pots of pulp to welcome the Jin army. Wherever they went, the people wholeheartedly welcomed them.

However, on the way to march, some soldiers of the Jin army broke away from the main force and scattered to the surrounding villages to loot.

But these are minor problems. It is strange that the army of this era does not rob, but robbery is an extremely normal behavior.

Huan Wen captured Yuzhou and Luoyang, and continued to capture Yanzhou in the north, all the way to Fangtou.

Fangtou is located next to Puyang, which is the place where Wang Jue slaughtered the nobles of Dongjun.

Even though more than 100 years have passed, the legend of Wang Jue is still circulating here.

There is a nursery rhyme in Puyang: Wang Jue arrives, and the gentry dies.

In Fangtou, Huan Wen also saw the execution platform built by Wang Jue, which was specially used to massacre the Dongjun gentry in public, so as to improve the morale of the Tiger and Leopard Knights.

"I think back then that Wang Heyu was invincible, and everyone in the world surrendered. If Wang Heyu came back to life today, it would be a mere Murong Xianbei!" Huan Wen looked at the blood-stained instruments of torture, imagining that he was like Wang Jue back then. All over the world, wolves were even sealed off to live in Xu.

But Huan Wen couldn't help shaking his head when he thought that Wang Jue's family was independent and didn't care about the Central Plains court at all.

Wang Jue is Wang Jue, and the Wang family is the Wang family, they should not be confused.

Huan Wen also wanted to slaughter the family like Wang Jue, relying on his personal authority to build a powerful cavalry unit loyal only to him, Huan Wen.

While Huan Wen was still admiring Fangtou's torture instruments.

Tatata!
Many Xianbei cavalry arrived, but the Jin soldiers were busy burning, killing and looting Fangtou, and there was no time to organize their troops, so they were caught off guard.

It turned out that this was a bait tactic of the Yan State. It intentionally moved many Han women to Fangtou and other places, luring the Jin soldiers to plunder the Han women here. win all.

Huan Wen had expected it a long time ago, let the reserve team withstand the attack of the Murong Xianbei cavalry, and then arranged for the soldiers of the Jin army to start retreating.

After a few days of fighting and retreating like this, Huan Wen heard that General Deng Qiang of the State of Qin led troops to support Murong Yan State, so he completely gave up the plan of the Northern Expedition and prepared to return to Jiankang all the way.

When retreating, Huan Wen pretended to be invincible, trying to lure Murong Xianbei to chase and kill him, and then came back to kill him with a carbine.

However, Murong Chui saw through Huan Wen's forest and did not pursue Huan Wen directly, but followed Huan Wen all the time.

After several days in a row, Huan Wen and Murong Xianbei never launched an attack, so they simply canceled the counterattack plan and ordered the troops to rush southward with a rapid march, hoping to return to Jiangdong as soon as possible.

However, when he gave up his counterattack plan and switched to a quick march, Murong Chui immediately launched a surprise attack.

Huanwen was defeated, 3 cavalry lost more than 1, and he fled back to Jiangdong in embarrassment with more than [-] remnants.

On the way to escape, Huan Wen saw the willow tree that he passed by during the last Northern Expedition, and found that the willow tree had withered, and he was already very old.

After sighing, he murmured to himself again: "A real man was born between heaven and earth, if he can't be famous forever, he should be infamous for thousands of years, and he can't be ignored by future generations in obscurity."

Since the Northern Expedition is no longer possible to succeed, and it is no longer possible to be famous like Wang Youan and Wang Heyu, then usurp the throne and become emperor, and it will be infamous forever.

This battle is really aggrieved. If Wang Jue is allowed to fight, he will have to eat people all the way from Jiangdong to the grassland. There is no need for logistics. The enemy and the people are the logistics. Only in this way can the soldiers be quick, otherwise they have to wait for the logistics materials to be transported , It greatly delays the marching speed, so it is difficult to achieve unexpected military effects.

If the enemy's army is attacking, we should avoid the edge, harass the enemy's key points, and force the enemy to send reinforcements, and then our army will concentrate our superior forces to take the opportunity to wipe out the enemy's loners.

Huan Wen has neither Wang Jue's military talent nor Wang Jue's cruelty, so how can he succeed?
But it's hard to say, after all, Wang Jue has extremely strong control over the army. If Wang Jue is appointed as the general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the first thing may not be the Northern Expedition, but to enter Jiankang City first, and kill all the royal relatives and aristocratic families. Kill them all to prevent these people from dragging their feet, and then launch the Northern Expedition.

With Wang Jue's cruelty, in order to win the final victory, he would not care even if he killed millions of Jiangdong's floating corpses.

After returning to Jiangdong, Huan Wen asked his counselor: "I want to be infamous forever and control power, what should I do?"

The counselor replied: "Abolishing the emperor can make you notorious for thousands of years, and it can also deter the courtiers, making your power more stable, general, just like Dong Zhuo back then."

Huan Wen thought it made sense, so he began to spread rumors that the emperor Sima Yi couldn't have sex, so he was not qualified to be emperor, and spread the news that he wanted to abolish the emperor.

Faced with Huan Wen's aggressiveness, Langya Wang's and Chen Jun's Xie's dared not speak, even Xie An stayed behind closed doors, unwilling to have a conflict with Huan Wen.

The talented girl Xie Daoyun who just turned 20 was also warned by her husband's Langya Wang family not to discuss state affairs at this tense moment, so as not to accidentally annoy Huan Wen.

The four great families of Wang Xieyu and Yin respected Huan Wen on the surface, but secretly they were discussing a plan to overthrow Huan Wen.

Today, the Jin court has the Sima clan of the royal family, the Huan clan of powerful ministers, the four great families of Wang Xieyu and Yin, and a bunch of other small families.

Huan Wen told the great Jin families with the facts that your family background is nothing in front of the military power. If you dare to refuse to accept it, you will directly kill your whole family. Regardless of your family history of hundreds or thousands of years, you are nothing but ants in front of the butcher's knife.

Facts have proved time and time again that the most effective way to deal with these aristocratic families is the butcher's knife.

Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, Wang Jue and others have already set an example for Huan Wen, and now they are waiting for Huan Wen to do the same.

Even the well-known Yuan family from Runan, trembling with fear in front of Dong Zhuo's butcher knife, could only cry and beg for his life?
The self-righteous Dongjun gentry lived like years under Wang Jue's butcher knife. When facing Wang Jue's tiger and leopard cavalry, they didn't even dare to breathe.

The noble nobles in Qingzhou and Xuzhou were robbed time and time again by the pirates sent by the ancestors of the Wang family, but they had nothing to do with the Wang family. To reconcile with the Wang family, you have to kneel outside the Wang family's manor in the winter, with snowflakes on your head, and humbly apologize to the Wang family.

In the face of absolute strength, the so-called noble family background is a joke.

There is no aristocratic family that cannot be dealt with. It only depends on whether the means are clever enough and the mind is cruel enough. If you can't deal with it, it doesn't mean that the family is strong, it can only mean that you are not good enough.

Now that he is ready to usurp the throne, he must fight with the royal family and aristocratic families of Dajin.

Therefore, Huan Wen began to study how Wang Jue eradicated the gentry of Dongjun. When he found out that Wang Jue's method of dealing with the gentry of the aristocratic family was "kill, kill, kill", Huan Wen couldn't help shortness of breath and rapid heartbeat. This is what he always wanted to do in his dreams. !

"Having a son should be like Sun Zhongmou, having a father should be like Wang Heyu, and I, Huan Wen, will definitely become the second Wang Jue."

(End of this chapter)