Chapter 935 Entering the City (Part 2)
“General Jin.”
“Captain Hou.”
The two greeted each other outside Duanmen.
Jin Zhun first looked at Hou Feihu.
This is a man in his late forties, with a medium build, neither tall nor short, and not very strong. He is probably about the same as an ordinary soldier.
My eyes are gentle, without too many fierce or violent emotions.
He won't stare at people for a long time, but he will observe you and figure you out from the corner of his eyes from time to time - this is Jin Zhun's own feeling.
When Hou Feihu was standing, his body was upright, his left hand was naturally drooping, and his right hand was gently stroking his beard, and he was casually looking at the scene in Chang'an.
He also had a preliminary impression of Jin Zhun at this time.
The first feeling is: this guy looks like a scholar.
Slightly older than him, tall, handsome and personable.
To be honest, even in the Central Plains, Jin Zhun's good skin will deceive many people, if he doesn't go crazy.
No wonder the three daughters are all being targeted. The handsome boy and the beautiful girl are probably the characteristics of the Jin family.
But the second feeling Jin Zhun gave him was not good. His eyes were too deep, lacked the spirit of justice and peace, and he easily went to extremes, whether they were good extremes or bad extremes.
In short, he likes to act on his own initiative, and according to King Liang, he is easy to "get on top of". Jin Zhun actually knows everything, what he should do and what he shouldn't do, but understanding is one thing, and it's useless if he can't control his emotions.
This is the kind of person who does shocking things under passion.
Once the passion comes to his head, nothing can stop him.
"Dudu Hou, when will King Liang enter Chang'an?" Jin Zhun asked.
“Don’t be impatient.” Hou Feihu said with a smile: “Your Majesty’s entire army has just crossed the Wei River and is marching towards Chang’an. It will not arrive until tomorrow.”
"We actually camped in Weibei." Jin Zhun was stunned for a moment, then sighed with emotion.
Hou Feihu understood what he meant.
The besieging army is so chaotic that it is not impossible to accidentally blow up the camp and collapse it. At that time, the Xiongnu will take advantage of the opportunity to cover up the attack, which will aggravate the chaos. The tribes will run around and collide, which may lead to chaos in the Liang King's troops. .
But he camped in Weibei, separated from the besieging army by the Wei River. Even if the entire army collapsed, it would be difficult to disrupt the 50,000 army on the north bank.
The King of Liang’s skill in using troops is not just talk.
While the two were talking, one carriage after another drove into the palace.
The cart was empty when you entered, but it was full of goods when you came out: silk and satin, swords, guns, halberds, cauldrons, incense burners, etc., everything you need.
In fact, Luoyang has many rare and rare items from the Western Regions.
Obviously, most merchants from the Western Regions could not go eastward after reaching Chang'an. They could only deliver goods to Liu Han's merchants and return home. From this one incident, Liu Han didn't know how much money he made.
Jin Zhun only glanced at the treasures and didn't pay attention to them at all. Then he followed Hou Feihu and entered the Duanmen.
There were a group of Hun officials standing respectfully inside the gate, and Jin Zhun introduced them one by one.
Hou Feihu listened quietly and occasionally nodded in greeting. He was neither too cold nor too enthusiastic, and he controlled the tone very well.
When he heard the names of Qi Wuyuan and Jin Ming, Hou Feihu said one more thing: "Your Majesty has an order, Qi Wuyuan can be the Sima, the general who protects the Huns, and Jin Ming should be the order of Chang'an."
When the two heard this, they were delighted.
Never mind what happened to the Huns in the past, that doesn’t count.
The two officials who protected the Xiongnu were Sima and Chang'an Ling. They were not big, but they were not small either. More importantly, they successfully "came ashore".
“Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness.”
“I am grateful and willing to go through fire and water.”
The two expressed their stance one after another.
You Ziyuan, Hu Xun, Wang Kuang and others were a little anxious, but they all refrained from speaking.
"You have other appointments." Hou Feihu nodded towards them and said.
A few people felt relieved.
On this occasion, it is either eating people or being eaten.
If you don't get an official position, even if it is just the lowest ninth-grade official, it means that you may be liquidated. Then, don't blame others for showing ill will towards you.
Hou Feihu continued to walk forward.
Soldiers from the fifth battalion of the Yellow Head Army were everywhere in the palace, standing guard every three steps and one sentry every five steps.
The blood stains in the palace have been almost cleaned up, but there are many fewer people in the palace, who must have been killed.
When arriving in front of Tai Chi Hall, Hou Feihu walked around the west side and carefully checked the defenses.
Jin Zhun and his party followed respectfully like subordinates.
From time to time, people came to report to Jin Zhun. Jin Zhun did not avoid Hou Feihu, and deliberately asked loudly and issued orders.
He was the general who protected the Huns, and before that he was the cavalry general of the Han Dynasty. He commanded all the troops and horses inside and outside Chang'an City.
Now that he has calculated all the calculations, he has collected nearly 19,000 soldiers and horses from all sides of Chang'an and the city, and more than 8,000 servants of wealthy families who were temporarily recruited. All of them have been disbanded.
There was a mutiny in the army of Liu Yue, the king of Guangping in the south of the city. He led troops to suppress it, but was forced by Zhao Gu, so he broke out with people loyal to him. In the end, only a hundred or ten people walked out and disappeared.
This is what I just reported to Jin Zhun. He said that traces of Liu Yue had been found in Shiping County, and he seemed to have gone to Nanshan.
Jin Zhun did not hesitate and sent troops from Jin's headquarters to pursue him, demanding that he must come back with Liu Yue's head.
After hearing this, Hou Feihu asked: "General Jin, do you know if there is a Liu Han clan in the city?"
"There used to be, but now it is gone." Jin Zhun reported.
Hou Feihu was startled.
"They have all committed suicide." Jin Zhun said.
Hou Feihu glanced at Jin Zhun again and said, "There is no one alive?"
"There is no one left alive." Jin Zhun said seriously: "This person doesn't know the fate of the world, so he deserves to die."
"Okay, very good." Hou Feihu was numb, secretly thinking that Jin Zhun was really vicious.
In his opinion, those reasons for rebellion were untenable.
I’m just a woman, is it worth rebelling over these small things?
But Jin Zhun rebelled and killed Liu Can and his son, and the entire clan was slaughtered.
This kind of person was so vicious that Hou Feihu felt that he should be given the post of general protecting the Huns, not because he was afraid of Jin Zhun's rebellion, but because he felt that this person might not be able to control the remnants of the Huns in Guanzhong.
He has lost any prestige among the Huns - it is not good if his prestige is too high, and it is not good if his prestige is too low.
After completing a tour, Hou Feihu returned from Huanglongmen.
Further north was the harem, and he was unwilling to go in to avoid suspicion.
Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something. Hu Xun, the doctor of Guanglu of Han Dynasty, had secretly reported to him: The day before yesterday, Jin Zhun, for some unknown reason, suddenly decided to kill all Liu Can’s concubines, leaving only his daughter Jin Yuehua alone. In the end, they were Work together to dissuade.
When Cao Wei destroyed Shu, all the women in Liu Chan's harem except the queen were rewarded for their meritorious service.
Sima Jin destroyed Wu, and Sun Hao's harem was either incorporated into Sima Yan's harem, or rewarded to officials or generals.
The king of Liang conquered Pingyang. Regardless of appearance, he only wanted the queen, and most of the others were rewarded. Hou Feihu, who was besieged by the governor's tribes, got a noble concubine.
To be honest, the harem of the enemy country is a very important trophy, and the beautiful women are the most important wealth, not to mention the status bonus of the noble lady of the enemy country. As the winner, I don’t know how coveted it is—— It's not that they lack women, it's that women of this status are in short supply.
Identity is the most easily overlooked thing by many people. I don’t know how much interest it brings to men. If you kill them all, won’t you be hated to death?
Jin Zhun thought about it and finally gave up.
After hearing the secret report, Hou Feihu chuckled secretly.
This Jin Zhun's behavior is really inexplicable, just like you didn't expect him to suddenly rebel, nor did you expect that he suddenly killed all the Liu Han clan, even Liu Can's harem.
"General Jin, lead your troops out of the city one by one and station them outside the gates. There is no need to pay too much attention to the affairs in the city." Hou Feihu ordered when he left Duanmen. "Yes." Jin Zhun agreed simply.
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On August 25, the sound of rapid horse hooves sounded on the northern horizon.
Xu Chu Quanqu, Xu Chu Yiyu and his son climbed up to the high platform in the camp and watched from a distance.
The first thing that appeared in sight was a group of soldiers with shining armor, about 1,500 people in total.
The horses wear iron armor and the men wear heavy armor. They are majestic and arrogant.
They held thick and long horse poles and shouted loudly to drive away the Di and Qiang soldiers who crowded the road from a distance.
Some people moved a little slower, and dozens of riders rushed over immediately, with horse branches as thick as saplings pointing at them from a distance.
The Di Qiang soldiers shouted, threw away their miscellaneous baggage, and ran towards the rear.
After repelling a group of people, the armored cavalry continued to advance.
The horse's hooves hit the ground like a heavy hammer.
The beetle leaves are clanging and towering like a mountain.
The horse is thick, long, powerful and powerful.
Wherever the armored cavalry passed, the troops moved and quickly cleared a large open space.
Thousands of Qingqi followed, taking their time.
When they arrived outside the camps, they spread out far away and circled the camps.
Even though they knew that these people would not really do anything to them, Xu Chuquan and his son still broke out in a cold sweat.
He brought over fifty thousand people, half of whom were stationed in the north of the city and the other half in the west of the city.
Just yesterday, Shan Zhi of Shangjun suddenly arrived in Chang'an with ten thousand people, headed straight to the west of the city, and took over the command of those people.
Most of the Di Qiang in the west of the city came from Feng Yi, but to be honest, they didn't care whether they were with Xu Chuquan, his father and his son, or the Shan family.
Although the Xuchushi clan is a large family of Feng Yi, it is not big enough to send out 50,000 troops. To put it bluntly, most of them were encouraged and coerced by him and were not members of his family.
For those people, the status and prestige of the Xu Chu family and the Shan family are almost the same. Which one is not the same?
Half of the people were taken away at once. Xu Chuquan and his son became sober and no longer as arrogant as before.
Today, I was frightened by the armored cavalry of the Youzhou Cavalry Governor, and I felt even more awe-inspiring. For a moment, I lost any resentment, and my expectations were lowered a lot.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sound of drums and horns sounded again in the distance.
Xu Chuquan and his son opened their eyes wide and looked carefully, only to see an endless infantry brigade appear.
They formed a huge phalanx, closely guarding dozens of gorgeous carriages in the center, as well as a large banner flying high and more than a dozen general flags.
The formation itself consists of more than a dozen small square formations, with thirty steps to the left and ten steps between the formations and ten steps to the front and back.
In the open space between the formations, messengers were rushing back and forth.
The outside of the formation was filled with smoke and dust, and the figures of the cavalry were looming.
Every time we walk, the entire formation will pause.
On top of the gorgeous carriage, someone blew a horn.
The formations stood at attention on the spot, responded to the sound of horns one after another, and began to adjust their formations.
Not only should the formation of your own phalanx be aligned left and right and moderately in front and back, but adjacent phalanxes should also be aligned with each other.
Someone under the banner of the Chinese army carefully looked at each square formation. Who did not blow the horn in response or who was slow to adjust the formation, immediately sent a ranger to supervise.
The entire formation adjusts its formation very quickly.
People in the distance could only see the boundless black shadow squirming rapidly, and soon stopped at attention.
On the carriage under the banner of the Chinese army, twelve drums were beating in unison.
The agitating knights in the phalanx immediately responded with drums.
Accompanied by the high-pitched shouts of the officers, tens of thousands of people shouted "kill" and moved forward again.
Xu Chuquan and his son looked at each other and found that the other one was swallowing dryly.
The formation is as solid as a mountain, the advance and retreat are orderly, the movements are quick, and the morale is high.
Compared with them, all my troops have to be thrown away.
A few more cavalry rushed over from the other side of the formation, and directly approached the Youzhou Tuqi Governor and the Jieqi surrounding the Diqiang.
After a moment, they rushed over and shouted: "Back off!"
"Back off! Back off!" the voices sounded one after another.
The Di Qiang retreated hurriedly, even causing a small-scale stampede.
Xu Chuquanqu's face turned red, and he turned his head away in anger, not wanting to look any further.
The sound of drums and horns was still ringing, and the rustling footsteps got closer and closer. In the end, the short sound of horns was close to my ears.
“Kill!” tens of thousands of people stood a hundred steps away, shouting in unison.
There was a commotion in the Diqiang camp, and some people couldn't help shouting, almost thinking that Shao Bing was about to launch an attack.
Fortunately, no, it was a false alarm.
Suddenly, the formation began to change again.
A group of thousands of people at the front advanced with weapons and headed straight for Pingshuo Gate.
The Chinese army's banner began to move.
Under the escort of two thousand warriors wearing bright light armor, thousands of soldiers following directly in front slowly moved forward.
Behind them, the various formations also began to adjust.
The square formation turned into a horizontal formation, and the horizontal formation turned into a column, one battalion after another, and the order followed.
The gorgeous carriage slowly passed through the cleared space in the middle of the Zahu camp.
When all the barbarians saw it, they all fell to the ground not knowing who had raised the head first.
The carriage did not stop and slowly entered Pingshuo Gate.
The army advanced silently and in good order.
The crowd knelt on the ground and slowly stood up until the carriage was no longer visible.
No one spoke because they were not in the mood.
After being shocked, people always appear very silent.
At this time, everyone will remember some things that they have deliberately forgotten: the Huns randomly sent some troops, whether it was Liu Can himself or his generals, they could defeat them all. Everyone was beaten to pieces.
And these Huns who had been riding on their heads were the defeated generals of the army in front of them.
Two hundred thousand troops besieged the city, and everyone was so happy that they thought they could reach heaven. Now I know that there is heaven outside the world, and there are people outside the world.
With these tens of thousands of people, if we were to attack with drums just now, would the troops present be able to withstand it? It can't be said that it was a huge rout.
The king of Liang said that the troops should retreat and not enter the city.
Do you still want to enter the city now?
"Your Majesty will hold a banquet in Luzi Garden tomorrow, and you will be rewarded based on your merits. The nobles of the tribe can bring two or three relatives to the banquet..." Another sound of horse hooves came, and the knight shouted loudly as he walked.
After hearing this, the crowd looked happy.
The atmosphere that was still a bit solemn and solemn just now suddenly became lively.
Over the past few days, their mood has changed from happiness to doubt and dissatisfaction, then to fear and fear, and now to joy.
In a word, he was pinched to death.
(End of this chapter)