Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 36
On this day, the emperor was drinking and having fun with the ten permanent attendants in the back garden, but he saw a person approaching him. The person was Liu Taoye, an admonishing doctor. Seeing his grief, the emperor asked him why.

Liu Tao thought for a while and said, "Now the world is at stake, why does Your Majesty still have the heart to drink and have fun with these eunuchs here?"

The emperor was a little displeased when he heard the words: "There is peace in the four seas, so where is there any crisis?"

Liu Taosui said: "Since the Yellow Turban bandit was destroyed, there have been groups of bandits from all over the world. They have invaded the prefectures and counties for some time. They also deceived the emperor and did not let His Majesty know the news, and the more upright people in the court have been harmed by them a lot, and the crisis will come soon if this continues!"

The ten permanent attendants were horrified when they heard this, and they all knelt down in front of the emperor, and said to the emperor: "It seems that these ministers really can't be compatible with us, and the ministers have only a dead end! I just hope that your majesty can remember the past. Love, let me return Gou's life to the countryside, and donate all the family property for military use." Shi Changshi wept bitterly while talking, looking really miserable.

The emperor couldn't help being annoyed when he heard this, and said to Liu Tao: "Don't you have anyone close to you at home? Why can't you tolerate people close to me?"

After speaking, the emperor ordered the guards around him to pull Liu Tao out and behead him. Liu Tao knelt down and cried out, "It's not a pity for me to die! It's a pity that the Han Dynasty has been here for more than four hundred years, and it will soon come to an end!"

The guards took Liu Tao out of the palace, and just about to kill him, a minister stopped the guards: "Hold on, wait until I go to intercede with the emperor."

When the guards saw him, it was Situ Chen Dan. Chen Dan hurried into the palace to meet the emperor, and said to the emperor, "Why is Liu Tao going to be beheaded?"

The emperor replied without thinking: "He wantonly slanders my trusted people and offends my majesty, of course he will kill his head!"

After thinking for a while, Chen Tan said to the emperor: "Nowadays, there are countless common people in the world who want to eat the meat of the ten eunuchs, but your majesty treats them like parents. These eunuchs themselves have not made any contribution to the country. It is a meritorious service, but he can be named a lieutenant, not to mention that now, the newly-arrived bandits and the remnants of the Yellow Turban are causing chaos, if your majesty does not reflect on it and still insists on going his own way, then the country and society may not be far from collapse."

The emperor replied: "It's not necessarily true that Feng Xuan made trouble. As for the ten permanent servants, how could they all be treacherous people?"

Seeing that the emperor was not willing to follow his advice at all, Chen Dan had no choice but to bang his head on the steps for blood recommendation, but the emperor didn't accept this, and ordered Chen Dan and Liu Tao to be thrown into prison together in a rage.

That night, Shi Changshi ordered people to murder the two men in the prison, and then made Sun Jian the prefect of Changsha under the guise of the emperor's edict, and ordered him to fight against the bandits. The good news came back that Jiangxia was pacified, and the emperor ordered Sun Jian to be named Marquis of Wucheng.

Then the emperor issued an edict to make Liu Yu the shepherd of Youzhou, and led the troops to Yuyang to conquer Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's bandit army. Liu Hui of Daizhou recommended Liu Bei to meet Liu Yu with a letter. He ordered Liu Bei to be the captain, and led his troops to kill the bandits' hometown. Liu Bei and the bandits fought hard for several days.

Zhang Chun has a tyrannical personality and has always been bad to his subordinates. After this hard fight, he lost confidence in him, so the leader of the account plotted to assassinate Zhang Chun, cut off Zhang Chun's head, and led his bandits to come Surrender to Liu Bei.

Zhang Ju saw that the situation was not good, the army was defeated like a mountain, and there was no chance, so he hanged himself and died. Liu Bei led the army to eradicate all the thieves in Yuyang. Liu Yu then wrote to the emperor to praise Liu Bei's military achievements. After the emperor learned about it, he ordered Liu Bei to be pardoned for the crime of killing Duyou, and Liu Bei was named Gaotang Lieutenant. Afterwards, Gongsun Zan also performed some of Liu Bei's previous military achievements, so the emperor made Liu Bei Sima of another department and guarded the county magistrate of Pingyuan.

Liu Yu was also named Taiwei because of his meritorious service against the Kou.

But it is said that just after the bandits here were wiped out, there was another rebellion in Liangzhou, the land of the Western Qiang.

In November of the first year of Zhongping, the Qiang Beigong Boyu rebelled and led an army to attack the Liangzhou government army. At that time, he also went to the capital Luoyang to handle official business. At that time, the general summoned him because he had heard of Han Yue's name. Han Yue persuaded He Jin and hoped that he could find a way to destroy the eunuchs. About to return to Liangzhou again.

At that time, Liangzhou Inspector Zuo Chang sent Gai Xun to lead an army to garrison Ayang County. The Qiang rebels attacked Ayang County for a long time and could not break through the city, so they had to turn to attack Jincheng County. Jincheng County was insufficiently defended and was broken by the Qiang rebels. Chen Yi, the prefect of Jincheng County, was also beheaded by the Qiang people.

The Qiang people then forced Bian Yun and Han Yue to rebel together, and elected Bian Yun as the leader. Bian Yun led the army to surround Liangzhou and Zhiji County. Seeing that he was defeated, Zuo Chang sent someone to ask Gai Xun for help. Ji County.

Gai Xun yelled loudly in the army, denouncing the betrayal of Bian Yun, Han Yue and others. After hearing this, Bian Yun and Han Yue cried and said to Gai Xun, "If Zuo Chang had listened to you earlier, he would have sent troops Rescue Jincheng County, maybe we can still have a chance to reform, but now the crime is too serious, there is no way to surrender."

Bian Yun then withdrew his troops and lifted the siege of Jixian County, but then he led his troops to surround Xia Yu's headquarters, the guard of Qiang Xiaowei. After that, Bian Yun changed his name to Bian Zhang, and Han Yue officially changed his name to Han Sui at this time. .

And until March of the second year of Zhongping, Han Sui and other rebels led tens of thousands of cavalry under the banner of killing the eunuchs, and invaded the Sanfu area in one fell swoop. Seeing that they were about to approach the Yuanling Mausoleum, the emperor was very frightened when he heard the words, and immediately They dispatched Zuo Cheqi General Huang Fusong and Zhong Lang General Dong Zhuo to conquer, but Han Sui led the army to beat them all.

As a result, the strength of Bian Zhang, Han Sui and others further expanded, and soon they had [-] people, becoming a very powerful team of warlords.

In July of this year, Huangfusong was dismissed because he was not good at fighting against the rebels. In August, the emperor ordered Sikong and Zhang Wen to be the general of chariots and horsemen. He and Zhou Shen, the general of the gangsters, were all under the command of Zhang Wen.

This army led a total of more than [-] infantry and cavalry, stationed in Meiyang and other places, trying to defend the royal cemetery. Han Sui then led his troops to attack Meiyang. Zhang Wen and Dong Zhuo fought Han Sui again. at a disadvantage.

But Dong Zhuo was repeatedly defeated by Han Sui, and finally remembered a person. This person was none other than Xiang Yu, who was forcibly sacrificed by a young man named Zhou Zhuo. The army's meritorious service was played by Dong Zhuo and he was awarded the title of General Fen Yong, and he was appointed as the prefect of Hedong County on behalf of Dong Zhuo.

So Dong Zhuo played the emperor again, saying that Xiang Yu was brave and resourceful, and hoped that Xiang Yu could join him in the crusade against the rebels. The emperor agreed to order Xiang Yu and Dong Zhuo to go together to destroy the Han Sui rebels.

(End of this chapter)