The Emperor ordered Zhao Tang

Chapter 152 Southern Barbarians
After Hu Hong killed Du Hong, he was arrogant and lawless. His general Luo Yin had a beautiful wife and raped him. Yin was angry and led the governor of Huangzhou, Wu Tao, to rebel. The Wuchang army rebelled again and killed Hong. Tao claimed to be the governor of Jingzhou. Xu Dexun of Yuezhou was dissatisfied and claimed to be the commander-in-chief of all military affairs in Jingzhou and the general of Xiling. Lei Man of Wuling heard the news and also claimed to be the governor of Wuzhen. Ma Yin sent an envoy to persuade Dexun to give up his title. If he refused, he would attack him; Dexun did not listen.

Li Yan, a carpenter from Kuaiji, killed Ding Zhang, the governor of Wenzhou, in his office, and Zhang Hui, a military officer, executed him again; Dong Chang, the governor of Liangzhe, appointed Hui as governor.

Sima Le defeated Wang Yanzhao, the envoy of Kelan, and Liu Yan, the envoy of Zheluo Ping, several times. Keyong summoned Zhenwu Army and 2,000 Tuyuhun, Xiajiasi, Turkic and other Hu people to help. Zhenwu was poor and the rewards were not strong enough. When the order arrived, the soldiers were silent. Keyong borrowed money from the rich to send troops to the city; then he went to Shizhou.

Wang Chao, the governor of Fujian, defeated a group of barbarians and bandits, and pacified the patrol area. He submitted a petition to pay tribute of hundreds of ships of money and goods, and the emperor ordered that the provinces of Xiang, Shang, and Han be brought into the pass next spring. Chao was promoted to the position of inspector of the left servant, and was given the title of founding marquis of Nanhai County. The governor of Jiangxi, Yingchuan Wang Zhongchuan, did not pay tribute, and secretly communicated with Bianliang, so the court dismissed him from all his posts and replaced him with Wei Quanfeng, the governor of Fuzhou.

On October 17, perhaps because they felt that the probability of the sage's defeat was too high, Su Xun, the Minister of Rites, Xue Yiju, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Zhang Wenwei, the Imperial Household, Yao Li, the Imperial Academy Scholar, Zhao Guangfeng, the Minister of Shrines, Zhang Ce, the Deputy Minister of Water Resources, and Yu Jing, the Vice Minister of Personnel, secretly gathered their families and planned to go to Bianliang. The case was discovered. Han Yi, the Inspector of the Capital, and Wu Gongdu, the Chief Censor, sent out the lawmen to arrest them. Xun, Guangfeng, Yiju, Ce, Jing, and Ji were all sentenced to death.

Zhang Wenwei was exiled to Fengzhou.

This incident made Li more alert.

There are two ministers everywhere. In later generations, it seems that it was Xue Yiju and others who sold out Empress He and Emperor Ai. They dragged Emperor Ai by the clothes and made him leave the palace. They gave Empress He a bad name and said she committed adultery. They talked about the merits of King Liang in the court. They called Zhu Wen a saint before the hypocritical abdication took place. It's okay to know the current situation, but the orphans and widows who harmed their former master were more active than Zhu Wen's lackeys... They deserve to be exterminated.

From early October to November, the troops from various routes fought against the Bian bandits on both sides of the Yellow River. After the victory in Wenxi County, Li Sizhao and Li Cunzhen defeated Liu Kangyi in Wanquan. Seeing that the court had stockpiled heavy troops at Pujin Pass, Li Sizhao did not come here, but went directly to Longmen, and together with Yang Kexuan, the city governor of Hancheng, they defended the north to prevent Zhu's army from crossing the river from there, while waiting for an opportunity to attack Sima Le who dared to touch the tiger's whiskers.

On the third day of the winter month, the Bian army attacked Hedong City and its outer camp. Wang Congxun, Liu Xun, Tao Jianzhao, He Chuyu and others led 60,000 troops to fight.

When the warning letter arrived, Xinqin governor Tuoba Sigong was afraid and sent more than 10,000 Han soldiers to the south of Hexi County in Zuofengyi to assist Huorui school lieutenant Gao Hanhong in defending the city. Zhu Wen gave Zhao Chang, the governor of Zhongwu Army who was in charge of the battle, 20,000 more soldiers and instructed Xiao Hao to wait for the river to freeze and form an ice dam, and then dig soil to fill the river in this section of Hexi County. When the river valley is filled to the same level as the two banks, Li Ni will be killed!
On the sixth day of the eleventh month, Liu Xin, the governor of Yuzhou, led more than 6,000 Shu people from Hanzhong to Chang'an. The 4,000 Cai troops led by Zhao Kuangming and Zhao Kuanglin also arrived on the same day.

On the ninth day of the eleventh month, Yang Munan, the governor of Bozhou in Qianzhong Road, led 10,000 soldiers from the southern barbarians and Miao people to come to the king's defense.

The Southern Barbarians were more chaotic than the Dangxiang. They included the Qing Barbarians, the Bai Barbarians, and the Hanshang Barbarians. They were descendants of the garrison soldiers and immigrants during the Qin and Han dynasties. Their surnames were Wei, Wang, Yang, Dong, Li, Zhao, etc. Although they had been among the barbarians for a long time and had become barbarians, they knew that their ancestors were Han people, and they considered themselves to be of high status, and did not intermarry with the barbarians. Except for a few habits, they were no different from the Han people. Similar to them were the descendants of the uprising army and hundreds of thousands of gangsters in the six counties of Tianshui who were settled in Shuzhong by Sima Zhong in the Western Jin Dynasty, including Di and Qiang.

There are also the ancient Shu people called "Xunchuan Man". There are more men than women in the mountains and rivers, and often several dozen women and young women share one man. The men are idle and their only serious business is Emperor Wen of Wei. Ahem, the girls of Xunchuan Man don't like to wear clothes and are used to being naked... It's really a saint's paradise, haha! In war, they use bamboo cages as helmets and rattan armor. Due to tribal sentiments, most of the battles are fought by women. The emergence of strong women such as She Xiang, Liu Shuzhen, and Qin Liangyu is due to the soil.

Maybe the shadow cast by Zhuge Liang, an old man who didn't know how to cherish women, was too deep. At this time, the Wuhou Stone Inscription still exists, and the inscription says: "The monument is the servant, and the barbarians are the slaves of the Han." Seeing the monument is like seeing the old guy. The southern barbarian girls were very scared and worshipped him as a living Buddha...

There are also nobles with the surname Yu. Only God knows where these barbarians came from. Maybe they are expatriates of the nobles during the Yongjia Rebellion, or maybe they are descendants of the Yu family who were forced to resign. It's hard to bear for nobles to become barbarians. I'll ask Lady Yu some other day. There is a palace official named Yu Daolian in the Ye Ting.

In short, it was a mess. The historian of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was devastated by it, said: "There are so many barbarians that it is impossible to remember them all!" It was impossible to figure it out. At this time, the court was too lazy to identify them and called them all bastards and barbarians. Some of them belonged to the Imperial Army. Some of them were naughty, but they played dead as soon as the Central Plains envoys came. There was also a group of unruly people who were difficult to control. Jiannan and Wuguan had suppressed them. Sometimes the northern army also came and killed a lot of people. Yang Munan, who led this time, was the grandson of Yang Duan.

In the Qianfu year, Nanzhao attacked Bozhou, and the Liao tribe warrior Yang Duan led the people to resist. The court appointed Duan as the governor of Bozhou, the deputy envoy of Qianzhong observation, and the envoy of the barbarians. Probably because he had tasted the sweetness of this incident, after receiving the invitation from Liu Xin, the governor of Yuzhou, to come to the capital, Yang Duan summoned several good leaders, gathered tens of thousands of people, and asked his children and grandchildren to bring them to the capital.

Their intentions are commendable. But to be honest, it is not realistic to expect them to fight the Bian bandits head-on. In history, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the barbarians in Qianzhong rebelled. Zhu Wen was busy, so he asked Ma Yin to handle it. Ma Yin handed the matter over to the governor of Shaozhou. Lu Shizhou selected 5,000 soldiers and defeated the barbarians in one battle.

Most of the 10,000 barbarians brought by Yang Munan and others could not even defeat the militiamen in the capital area. The Miao soldiers were the most noteworthy. When Zhao Kuangyin attacked Wuping, the barbarian Qin Zaixiong brought 3,000 Miao and Yao to join the battle. His troops "can all wear armor and cross rivers, climb mountains and trenches, and are as agile as monkeys."

The sage once planned to give Yang Munan and Yang Zaisi an official title and send them back home, but then he thought, since they were here, if they couldn't fight, they could just serve as civilians. It would be better to recruit fewer men and women from the three prefectures, like the able-bodied men of the Yincheng tribe led by Ye Liren, Murong Cong, and Helian Jingqian.

On November 11, the wind was howling.

The imperial edict readjusted the affiliation and command of the various armies. Among them, Li Sizhao, the commander of the Hedong Yameng, was appointed as the commander of the northern camp of Hezhong. Tuoba Sigong, the governor of Xinqin, was his deputy. Gao Hanhong, the commander of Huorui, stationed in Hexi County, Zhe Silun's troops in Lanzhou, Yang's army in Lin County, Yang Kexuan, the commander of Guangrui in Hancheng, Li Yanzhen, the commander of Shangjun, and the 2,000 militiamen and soldiers from Taiyuan were all under his jurisdiction.

The eastern camp was also fine-tuned.

Wang Congxun, the defense commander of Hezhong, was appointed as the commander, and He Chuyu was his deputy. Liu Xun was appointed as the military commander of the camp. Tao Jianzhao left the town and went to the court, leading 4,000 Hezhong army soldiers and Wang Ke and Guangde to Zuo Fengyi to separate the Pu army in the city and prevent them from making trouble. The newly arrived Li Cunxiao led 700 cavalrymen of his army to Hedong County, and served as the Eastern Tour Envoy, under the command of Wang Congxun.

At the Chaoyi camp, the emperor led the Yincheng army, the Nanman Miao, the Yuzhou soldiers, the guards infantry, and the military and civilians of Zhao Kuangming and other troops.

On November 14, the temperature dropped sharply and a heavy snowstorm hit Guanzhong. The saint who was getting up and going to work before dawn, cursing and swearing, had not yet pushed away the buttocks of the three immortal sisters pressing on his face, when he received an urgent report - the Bian army launched a large-scale and fierce offensive against Hedong City, Puguan Bridge, and Hexi City at the same time. It seems that the Bian army also rested well and its morale was restored. These days, the royal army was resting and preparing for war, and Zhu Ni's army was also properly arranging the dead and injured soldiers, replenishing winter clothes, wine and meat, firewood, war tools and prostitutes.

Zhu Wen has been gathering his strength for a while, and now the big thing is about to come.

　It's short, but I'll make do with it. I've been having too much fun these past two days, so I'm distracted. Tomorrow, I'll definitely write more and update more. These are also the last two days of this month, so please vote.

　　
　
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