Chapter 652 Shangluo
In the third year of Taiwu, spring, March, Taiyuan.
This is already the ninth year since Zhang Chong came to this world. In the past nine years, the former green young man, who still harbored confusion about the world, has grown into a true king.
Although it is difficult, he is still changing the world little by little.
In the past nine years, many things have remained unchanged according to historical inertia. For example, the Yellow Turban Uprising still happened, and the Han Dynasty was still in chaos. Those heroes from history still appeared on the stage and performed great dramas.
Cao Cao occupied Qingxu, Yuan Shao occupied the Central Plains, Liu Biao occupied Jingzhou, Sun Jian occupied Wuyue, and even Liu Bei, after many twists and turns, still gained a foundation in Yizhou.
But the world has changed so much that it seems a bit unrecognizable.
Dong Zhuo, who was supposed to be a traitor to the Han Dynasty, became the hope of the Han Dynasty. Naturally, there were no subsequent eighteen princes to challenge Dong. Tao Qian's occupation of Xuzhou came to an end too quickly, and his inheritance was not given to the destined Liu Yuzhou, but to a Huaishang hero, Chen Deng.
This young prince with the spirit of lakes and seas is working hard in Lianghuai, fighting against Qingxu's Cao Cao.
And the ending of Liu Zhang in Yizhou was more tragic than in history. He was promoted to Uncle Fang by his father's Dongzhou faction and Yizhou's powerful right-wingers. However, this power beyond his ability did not bring him wealth, but instead brought endless disasters.
When Li Jue conquered Chengdu, he hunted and killed the officials of the Dongzhou faction and tried his best to force the powerful rightists in the city. As for Liu Zhang himself, he was also placed under house arrest by Li Jue.
Although under house arrest, Liu Zhang still simply thought that he would be driven into Beijing and left to the little emperor to make a decision. Then, Li Jue ordered Fei Guan to bring him a glass of poisonous wine and ordered him to commit suicide.
Liu Zhang refused to drink, thinking that suicide was a shameful thing.
Fei Guan, his cousin, not only failed to convey Liu Zhang's wishes to Li Jue, but instead covered Liu Zhang to death with a quilt.
Before his death, Liu Zhang realized that he only regretted that he was born into a clan and had an ambitious father. If he were an ordinary person, he might be able to study with peace of mind.
Liu Zhang's death made the game of competition in this world even more cruel. Those who join the game with the intention of having fun will pay the price with the lives of their entire clan.
Liu Zhang's death also made the world less moral. He was undoubtedly a kind-hearted man who loved the people. When Chengdu's heroes opened the city gate, Fazheng persuaded him to stay in the inner city and wait for reinforcements from outside.
However, Liu Zhang gave up his plan to retreat to the inner gate because he thought that the people of Chengdu would suffer from the war and surrendered to Li Jue.
The final result was that the people of Chengdu were not saved, and Liu Zhang's life was not saved either.
Fortunately, when the news of Chengdu's defeat reached Mianzhu Pass, he knew that Li Jue was hunting down Dongzhou warriors. Guard Pang Xi felt desperate and took his three thousand elite troops out of the pass to surrender to Liu Bei.
Afterwards, Liu Bei drove directly to Chengdu. After his hard persuasion, Li Jue moved out of the city with countless gold, pearls, jade and silk.
Li Jue's troops came from the Yinping Road, so there were actually not many soldiers and horses. However, Liu Bei went south from Hanzhong to surrender and accept the rebels, and his troops numbered more than 10,000.
That's why Liu Bei's "persuasion" is useful.
After Li Jue's Liangzhou troops withdrew from Chengdu, Liu Bei entered the city to maintain public security. He also buried Liu Zhang's body properly. With his efforts, Chengdu quickly restored stability, although Chengdu was already in ruins at this time. .
Liu Bei's various actions, compared with Li Jue and others, can be called a king's master. Not only the remaining Dongzhou scholars and Yizhou heroes closely surrounded Liu Bei, but Fazheng and others who were lucky enough to survive also quickly He took refuge in Liu Bei's shogunate.
In this way, it is a blessing in disguise.
Although he lost the great achievement of seizing the city, Liu Bei changed his identity from a conqueror to a savior, which greatly benefited the hearts of the state's soldiers. Many Yizhou scholars even called for keeping Liu Bei in Chengdu as Yizhou shepherd.
Although Liu Bei reprimanded him for this, it can be seen that his kindness to Chengdu is profound.
If it weren't for Li Jue's trouble, how could Liu Bei have this opportunity?
At this time, Li Jue is the only one who shows off his fierceness and strength in the world?
Between the prefectures and counties, Weifu is used for his own purposes, and on the edge of the countryside, he dominates with his strength.
It can be said that in the nine years since Zhang Chonglai, despicable people have been rampant in the world, and moral people have perished, as if the world is being dragged into the abyss by an out-of-control carriage.
But the nine years since Zhang Chong came here have also brought profound changes to the world.
More and more people in Guizhou gradually believe that their own hands can create wealth and dignity. More and more land is being fairly distributed to most people in the north, and everyone, regardless of Hu or Han status, can support themselves with their own hands.
An unprecedented life and faith quietly took root in the north.
This is the change Zhang Chong has brought to the world in the past nine years, a kind of hope in troubled times.
As for the past nine years, Zhang Chong has built a Taishan army from scratch with a scale of nearly 100,000 and many famous advisers and generals. This is just a small and insignificant achievement.
At this time, Zhang Chong thought about the changes in the past nine years, and his heart was filled with determination.
In the spring of the third year of Taiwu, he will lead the Taishan Army to liberate the whole world.
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In the spring of the third year of Taiwu, on March 10th, Taiyuan.
At this time, there was a lot of noise outside Taiyuan City.
Stretching for dozens of miles from the east gate of Taiyuan, the banners are fresh and clean, the feather guards are neat and tidy, the armor and cavalry are flowing like a stream, the road is blocked by heavy baggage, and there is an endless stream of people.
Along the road, the people of Taiyuan also supported the old and the young, cheering along the way, especially when they saw a gold-plated shoulder carriage with warriors wearing yellow brocade under the shoulder carriage, armed with sharp soldiers, and covered with precious flags all the way, they all shouted loudly. Call:
"Long live King Zhang!"
"Long live King Zhang!"
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"Long live King Zhang!"
Its sound is like thunder, and it is also made by the people of Taiyuan from the heart.
The Taishan Army set up a winter camp in Taiyuan, and did not mention autumn during this period. It also repaired the houses of the people of Taiyuan and gave them winter clothes. Moreover, at the beginning of spring this year, Taiyuan County began a vigorous movement to divide the fields, and these days were full of fire.
How can such an army not be loved and supported by the people?
At this time, what the people on the road saw was the Taishan Army heading out to Luoyang.
After a winter of preparation and planning, Zhang Chong finally decided to go to Shangluo in March.
To be honest, this is not a good month to travel.
First of all, there is spring flooding in March, and the water level of the river is higher than usual, making it more difficult to cross the river than at other times. Secondly, March is full of spring cold, and the cold in March is not even weaker than in winter. Finally, spring plowing will begin in March, and large-scale deployment of the army will affect civilian production. But as the saying goes, time waits for no one. In today's world of great competition, everyone is chasing after others, and there is not so much emphasis on it.
However, it was indeed a big deal that the March expedition missed the spring plowing, so Zhang Chong also adjusted the order of Shangluo's armies this time.
The 50,000-strong army that went on this expedition included 20 battalions of officers from the Fifth Army and 10 battalions of assault cavalry. The remaining almost 20,000 people were Hu soldiers.
These Hu soldiers were Zhang Chong's biggest achievement last winter.
In fact, while the Taishan Army was attacking the surrounding areas of Taiyuan, the Hu people in the northern part of Bingzhou also fell into civil strife.
The Southern Xiongnu, the largest force in the area, fell into fighting due to the internal competition for the throne, which also led to the fighting among the Hu tribes in nearby areas, such as Xianbei, Wuhuan, Zahu and other tribes.
Later, as the Taishan Army occupied Taiyuan and appeased Yunzhong, Jiuyuan, Shuofang, Yanmen, Xihe and other counties in the north of Bingzhou, the Hu people in these areas began to rely on the Taishan Army one after another.
At that time, the Taishan Army was not only powerful in military strength, but also occupied the economic lifeline of the Hu people. At the same time, it was able to maintain a stable situation, which was very attractive to some grassland bastards who avoided fighting.
These bastards are generally frustrated people who have been mixed from various ethnic groups. They do not have any strong organizations and are almost all in exile.
According to the experience of the grassland, these weeds in the cracks will disappear in this winter like weeds. But now, as the overlord of this area, the Taishan Army wants to appease them. This is not a kindness.
As a result, these miscellaneous tribes gradually entered the ground of Taishan Army and accepted the management of Taishan Army.
Zhang Chong also used these people as experiments and transplanted the Hu-Han fusion template that was previously in the Pingzhou area here. Spread livestock, determine their yield per mu, and provide them with clothing and horses.
This brand-new model is undoubtedly a constraint for the upper-class Xiongnu and Xianbei chiefs, but it is very attractive to the large number of slave-like low-class people.
Zhang Chong not only provided financial assistance to these people, but also gave them Han surnames on a large scale, sent children from these tribes to the army to learn Chinese on a large scale, and at the same time organized the household registration of these Hu people.
Each account is a family, five families are a group, ten families are a group, and ten families are a capital. If these tribesmen are summoned, each tent will send out one soldier, led by a corps commander, chief, and general; if they are not summoned, they will be herdsmen according to this organization.
Zhang Chong formally adopted this "Du-Shi-Wu" system to reintegrate these herdsmen from different tribes and ethnic groups into one system, breaking the original barriers between them.
So far, the Taishan Army has organized and trained fifty-eight such cities in the northern part of Bingzhou, housing 200,000 women from Hudingkou, all distributed in various pastures.
As for the management of these capital accounts, Zhang Chongte specially filled them with a large number of injured and retired Taishan Army children, either as corps commanders or as generals.
It can be said that relying on the triple management of economy, administration, and culture, the Taishan Army gradually took control of the Hu people in the north. At the same time, the Taishan Army also accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with Hu-Han issues, and became more and more comfortable in solving such problems.
The work during this period was naturally hard, both in terms of cost and the retirement of a large number of military personnel, which reduced the strength of the Taishan Army.
But Taiyuan's wealth is beyond imagination, and the rewards of organizing various departments are far beyond expectations.
Of course, Zhang Chong knew that these people must be excellent sources of soldiers. Those Donghu tribes from Pingzhou and Xianbei Mountains had already proved their strength with their military exploits, but when he got the military register of the fifty-eight soldiers, he was still frightened. A jump.
Previously, Zhang Chong had graded the warriors under his command, among which the three categories of warriors were riding and shooting, weapons and sticks, and horns. Those who are proficient in one are classified as corporals, those who are proficient in two are classified as sergeants, and those who are proficient in three are classified as senior sergeants.
This is of course not an absolute judgment of force, because in a real fight, a sergeant who is proficient in all three may die at the hands of a corporal who is good at riding and shooting.
Therefore, this rating is only a reference for considering the strength of a martial artist. After all, the level of a warrior can only be known between life and death.
But based on this rating, a large number of warriors emerged from these fifty-eight capital soldiers.
According to the military register, there are 436 people with the talent of a corporal; 268 people with the talent of a sergeant; and one hundred and fifty-four people with the talent of a sergeant.
And you must know that the Taishan Army is the most powerful in the world, and there are only about a thousand warriors with the talents of sergeants, half of whom are from the Hengxing Army.
Although this occupancy is indeed not large, the gap can be seen from the population ratio.
Today, the Taishan Army occupies the territories of Ji, You, Ping, Ji, Tai, Lu, and Wei, and directly governs around 8 million Dingkou.
Therefore, every sergeant is almost one of a million.
The fifty-eight people mainly come from the five counties of Bingzhou, and the total number of Huhandingkou is around 400,000. Among them, there are 154 people with the talent of sergeant, almost reaching the level of one in 2,000 people.
It can be seen from this that the martial arts of Daibei and Huaishuo were flourishing.
Moreover, even if most of the warriors in the Fifty-Four Capitals are only proficient in one skill, it is generally riding and shooting.
And cavalry and archery is a true battle art. It can be said that these fifty-four people can form an elite cavalry and archery team of about a thousand people, just like Gongsun Zan's white horse Yi Cong in the past.
This time, Zhang Chong went to Luo in March and specially recruited fifty-four capitals, totaling 20,000 troops.
After about half a year of training, these 20,000 people have learned flags and drums, practiced military law, can understand simple Chinese, all have young families, and there are a large number of Taishan officials at all levels.
A large number of Taishan troops entered the fifty-four capitals and brought a new way of life to these barbarians. After taking a bath, wearing clean clothes, and listening to the preacher's reasoning, the fishy smell of these barbarians has become much weaker.
And when they wear Han clothes, Han crowns, and Han armors, they become qualified Han soldiers.
Therefore, the people of Taiyuan who were shouting in the streets at this time did not even notice how many of the armored warriors in front of them were barbarians.
In fact, Zhang Chong did not expect that it would be so easy to Chineseize the Hu people in the Bingbei area. It can be said that just six months was worth all the efforts in Pingzhou.
In fact, this is as it should be.
After all, the Bingbei area is the territory of the Han people, and the Hu people who migrated south have actually been immersed in Han culture for hundreds of years.
The Hu people in this area, whether they are the Xiongnu, Xianbei or Wuhuan, almost all the upper-class nobles are good at speaking Chinese. They often go to places like Kyoto to meet the Han emperor. It can be said that they admire and respect the Han far more than Lin Hai. The bastards in the snowfield can't compare.
Even, it is not shy to say that some Hu people in this area are even of Han origin. For one reason or another, they came to this area not under the direct jurisdiction of the Han court to survive.
The bitter cold in Shuobei sharpened the will of these Hu and Han people. These would have become the basic foundation of the core armaments of the Han and Zhao regimes. At this time, they had become another powerful force for the Taishan Army.
It was with such a legion that Zhang Chong started his journey south.
The goal is straight, join the party!
So:
"The canopy moves towards Luo, and the chariots and carriages go to the party. The elders in Taiyuan bear the responsibility of delivering pots of milk. Three hundred thousand soldiers are raised, and the banners are in the Taihang room. Hu Han is looking around, long live Zhang Wangzhen"