Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 21 Dilemma
Chapter 27 Life and Death Dilemma

Linhuai (now Linhuai Town, Fengyang County, Anhui), was the capital of Zhongli in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Zhongli County was established in the Qin Dynasty.In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhongli County was established and it was the seat of Xuzhou.This Xuzhou is no longer the Xuzhou of the Thirteenth Inspectorate of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Because Xuzhou was occupied by the Later Zhao Dynasty, it is Xuzhou for Overseas Chinese.Ran Min established the State of Wei. In April of the second year of Yongxing (351), the Eastern Jin Dynasty rebelled against Zhou Cheng, the Governor of Xuzhou in the State of Wei. Zhou Cheng and Xuzhou (Governing Pengcheng) surrendered to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The next year in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhongli County was changed to Linhuai County. Ten counties including Gaoshan County, Zuoqi County, Huailing County, and Siwu County.

At the same time, Linhuai became the frontier for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to resist the northern armies going south.

Linhuai City has six city walls, one in the east and one in the east, and two in the north and south.Surrounded by water on three sides and backed by mountains on one side (Tushan Gate is also the west gate), it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.In order to guard against the Shihu period, the Eastern Jin Dynasty sent soldiers to capture Xuyi, and the soldiers came to Jiankang City, so they focused on defending against the northern Hu people's attacks.Huan Wen’s second Northern Expedition successfully recovered the old capital Luoyang, and sent Mao Husheng to lead [-] powerful soldiers to defend Luoyang City. Huan Wen wrote to the court to request, but the Eastern Jin officials who moved south had already occupied a lot of land in the south of the Yangtze River. Many people only wanted to be comfortable and did not want to give up. The family business, and then returned to the north, so the proposal to move the capital was shelved.Later, Mao Husheng was transferred back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty to serve as the prefect of Linhuai (in history, he was the prefect of Huaiyin. For the sake of the plot, some changes were made. You don't have to be serious, this book is not official history, and it must be inconsistent with historical facts).

After Mao Husheng took over as the prefect of Linhuai, he immediately mobilized nearly ten thousand people to the entire city of Linhuai. First, he diverted the Huai River and the Hao River into the moat, and expanded the Hongji Canal so that the water surface of the Hongji Canal was about 46 steps wide, so that the three rivers surrounded Linhuai. The city makes Linhuai City easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it is located near Huai River, also known as Linhuai Pass.

The city of Linhuaiguan is about four feet three feet high, and it was built with bluestone and city bricks filled with glutinous rice soup, which is extremely strong.In order to guard against surprise attacks by Hu cavalry, Mao Husheng set up a beacon tower every ten miles in the Huai River, and set up five soldiers to provide time for war mobilization in Linhuai.Mao Husheng did not hesitate to spend money for Linhuai. He accepted bribes from salt lords, and his private soldiers built six bed crossbows and twelve catapults, and prepared a lot of equipment.

Mao Husheng believes that no matter whether it is Jie people or Xianbei people, it is impossible to occupy Linhuai without leaving [-] to [-] corpses here.

As soon as the sky was bright, an eight-foot-tall general, wearing a dazzling mountain armor, a embroidered animal skin cape (tube sleeves) and a bright silver cloud pattern short-knee war skirt, with a neck protector on his pocket, began to patrol. city ​​defense.This general is none other than Mao Husheng, the champion general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.Mao Husheng was originally the son of Mao Bao who joined the army in Pingnan. His name was Muzhi (the elder brother of the guerrilla general Mao An).

Mao Husheng walked forward at a tiger's pace, and he was very satisfied to see the soldiers who had guarded the city wall overnight like a mountain, full of energy.Mao Husheng was extremely strict in running the army, and the ordinary army trained every three to five days, which could be regarded as the elite troops of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.However, Mao Husheng followed Huan Wen to participate in the Northern Expedition, and was deeply moved when he saw the majesty and strict military discipline of the Xifu Army.He learned from Huan Wen's military training method, let the soldiers stand upright, and ordered the archers to shoot with the arrows that had pulled out the arrow clusters.Although the arrow cluster was pulled out, the arrow hit the human body, and the huge impact force was also painful.In the event of a shot in the face or eye, it can also cause casualties.Not to mention that the Linhuai army trained in this way can at least not be chaotic when facing arrows, and will not retreat when facing arrows.Among the armies of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they can be regarded as strong soldiers.

When Mao Husheng was about to carry out his morning training, he suddenly heard the news from Hongyangmen (Zhengnanmen, named in ancient times that the south of the water is Yin, and the north is Yang. Here it means the city gate to the north of Hongji Canal.) Drink: "Report!"

Mao Husheng yelled coldly: "Broadcast!"

Not long after, a messenger came galloping on horseback. The messenger got off his horse, knelt on one knee and cupped his hands and said, "I tell the general that Jiankang is here. Please go and receive the order!"

Mao Husheng said to the lieutenant general: "You guys continue to perform!"

After finishing speaking, Mao Husheng took his son Mao Qiu to pick up the fingers.Although the champion general is a miscellaneous general, as an actual military position, he also has integrity.When he came to the festival hall, Mao Husheng rushed to the eunuch who was standing with his hands behind his back and knelt on one knee and said, "Your Excellency, Linhuai prefect Mao Muzhi sees the angel!"

(angel means the envoy of the Son of Heaven, this is not a birdman with wings in the west)”

Da Changqiu Modi cleared his throat and said, "According to the order of the Empress Dowager, Mao Muzhi, the prefect of Linhuai and the champion general, will lead his troops to escort the genius doctor to Beijing without delay!"

Chu Suanzi listened to the government behind the curtain and governed the country on behalf of the emperor. She actually had the power to issue imperial edicts.It's just that this imperial decree and imperial decree were not issued casually.It's not like in movies and TV dramas, where the emperor or the queen mother just casually say it, write it down and cover the jade seal and it's over.In fact, as the supreme power of the country was exercised in the feudal era, the emperor could not directly issue orders.The real process is drafted by departments and personnel of functional agencies such as the prime minister (cabinet minister), and then reported to the emperor for review.After the emperor agrees or revises it, and after the emperor's private seal is affixed, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China will formally issue an imperial edict, which will be affixed and the emperor will send someone to promulgate and implement it.This set of procedures is very cumbersome, especially for the imperial decrees of rewards and canonization, which can be completed in a few months and the calculation efficiency is high.

But decrees like Chu Suanzi, like orders, do not have the force of law when they are accurate. (Most of them are poor children who were poisoned by Qing palace dramas)
"The minister obeys the order!"

The champion general Mao Husheng put away Chu Suanzi's order, and then handed it to Mao Bao to put it in the inner room. At this time, Mao Husheng led Moody into the festival hall.The waiter served tea, when Mao Husheng said: "I wonder if Da Changqiu can introduce the details of this miracle doctor?"

Sima Dan, the sixth emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, almost became a medicine man since he was born. It is an anecdote not to take medicine for three to five days.The deteriorating health not only worried Chu Suanzi, but also worried many ministers.

"Our family heard about a month ago that there was such a miracle doctor who appeared in the ghost world. Shi's skillful hands have healed countless people from the dead, and his medical skills are superb. We wanted to ask the miracle doctor to treat your majesty's chronic diseases." Moody's face was murderous, and he said sadly: "But no I thought of it, I didn't expect that someone didn't want our family to invite the genius doctor back to Jiankang. The sixteen palace guards sent by our family are all good players with one against ten, but they encountered him before they got close to Wild Wolf Valley. Assassination. Seventeen palace guards were shot and killed 12 people on the spot, and the others were chased and killed all the way, only one person came back seriously injured, barely leaving a few words before letting go."

"Who is it?" The murderous aura on Mao Husheng's body was much stronger than that of Moody's. He was a fierce general who liked to go to the front line to fight in person. He killed as many as 50 people, if not 30.Moody only felt that the interior of the festival hall dropped by more than ten degrees instantly, which made him tremble uncontrollably.

"So vicious?" Mao Husheng gritted his teeth and said, "If I find out who is behind the trick, I'll skin him, break his bones, and put him in a life-or-death dilemma!"

(End of this chapter)