Chapter 194 Temporary Peace
In November, perhaps God couldn't stand it any longer and wanted to breathe another breath for the big man. A meteor crashed into the rebel camp, shaking the hearts of the rebels.
Meteors pierced the sky, half of the sky was like a pillar of fire, and war horses neighed. Both the rebels and the army were stunned.
this. what is this? God punished! How is this still playing? Just like Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, meteors fell into the camp at night, and clouds like broken mountains during the day fell while the camp was in place, scattering less than the ground level, and the officials and soldiers were tired of falling.
People in ancient times were quite superstitious, so a miracle came from the sky and frightened the rebel army.
On the contrary, the morale of the counter-rebellion army was greatly boosted. Everything that happened in front of me truly told me that I had received help from the gods in the sky. How could I still win this battle? Dong Zhuo was even happier, "God is helping me!"
Immediately mobilize the troops, take the opportunity to make a surprise attack, defeat the rebels, and force Bian and Han to retreat westward into Yuzhong of Jincheng County.
After the victory in this battle, Zhang Wen, the Kwantung general from Nanyang, disappeared.
Zhang Wen's army divided into two groups to pursue the rebels: Zhou Shen led an army of [-] to attack Yuzhong, and Dong Zhuo led an army of [-] to pursue Yi Conghu in Huangzhong.
As expected, something unexpected happened, and both Zhou Shen and Dong Zhuo were defeated.
Not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods.
Although both of them were defeated, Zhou Shen became Dong Zhuo's backdrop.
Zhou Shen ignored the advice of his general Sun Jian to cut off the enemy's food routes. As a result, his own food routes were cut off by the enemy and he had to retreat hastily.
Dong Zhuo was surrounded by rebels at Wangyuan and ran out of food.
But Dong Zhuo is smart! He built a dam on the river to fish like shrimps, but secretly led his army across the river and the rebels wanted to pursue, the river blocked by the dike was too deep to cross.
During this attack, only Dong Zhuo returned with his entire army.
Because Dong Zhuo led his team back safely and defeated the rebels in the early stage, and performed outstandingly, Dong Zhuo was granted the title of Marquis of Tai Township and was granted a settlement of thousands of households.
Can Dong Zhuo be granted the title of Marquis for this little merit?
Obviously not.
Why was he granted a title?
Because now, whether it is the foreign relatives group headed by He Jin or the gentry group headed by Yuan Wei, they urgently need to find a military general, set up a flag, and compete with Liu Han for military power.
Dong Zhuo saved the imperial court's [-] troops, and they took a fancy to Dong Zhuo, so Dong Zhuo was now promoted to great heights.
Otherwise, if Dong Zhuo defeats all 3 people in the court, there will be no one available in the court, and the right to speak in the battle against Liangzhou will once again come to the hands of the King of Hejian, which will be detrimental to all of them.
What Dong Zhuo didn't know was that the opponent he was about to face was Sili Colonel Huang Zhong.
This battle was won first and then defeated. The Chang'an blockade still achieved its strategic purpose.
The imperial court preserved half of Guanzhong, with Longshan as the boundary, and the Han army began to confront the rebels again.
Although the Battle of Meiyang prevented the rebels from advancing towards the central heartland, due to the failure of the offensive, the rebels still maintained power in the upper reaches of the Yellow upper reaches of the Weihe River Valley became an area of contention between the two sides.
# His eyes turned to Liu Han again.
After four months of friendly negotiation (forced deterrence), Zhang Yan and his Black Mountain Army moved out of Jizhou and moved to Youzhou.
Among them, conflicts with the Montenegrin army are inevitable.
Except for Zhang Yan, there were 24 Yellow Turban leaders left, and Zhang Liao and others took advantage of the situation and killed half of them.
The remaining Yellow Turban leaders became civilians.
Different from history, Zhang Yan took refuge with Cao Cao at that time. Cao Cao granted Zhang Yan the title of Marquis of Anguo Pavilion and granted him a settlement of [-] households.
Zhang Yan took refuge with Liu Han, but Liu Han didn't kill him. He just gave him a few blows, which was considered lenient.
"Gong Ren (Dong Zhao's courtesy name), Wen Yuan will be back soon, and I'll leave it to you to resettle these yellow turban refugees."
"Don't worry, my lord."
Dong Zhao and others already have a very mature process for resettling refugees, and they are becoming more and more proficient in using work as a relief.
As for corruption?It’s not like no one under Liu Han has done it before.
But later he was caught, his body was quartered, and his whole family was confiscated and made into slaves. He was not pardoned.
Liu Han's zero-tolerance attitude towards corruption makes those who work under him dare not touch that red line.
Of course, there were too many poor families under his command, and Liu Han knew that their lives were not very good, so the treatment he gave them was much higher than that of ordinary people.
Therefore, Liu Han had no psychological burden when he killed corrupt officials.
In the seven years since he took over Bingzhou, no fewer than [-] officials, big and small, have been cut into pieces, and the property confiscated has also been used in construction.
Internal digestion, no loss.
Several people were discussing matters when suddenly a servant sent a military report, "The army that conquered Liangzhou was defeated."
"Failed? Didn't you say a miracle came from heaven?"
Guo Jia couldn't believe this was true.
"Ha." Duan Juan smiled, not surprised at all. No one knew what was going on in Liangzhou better than him.
Duan Yan is so calm and relaxed, which means that things in Liangzhou are far from over.
"My lord, Liangzhou is rebelling again, do we have to sit here all the time?"
"Now it's not a question of whether we want to move or not. The old guys in Luoyang are watching us a little closely, but there's no rush."
Duan Yan nodded, which coincided with his thoughts. Bingzhou was connected with Liangzhou. If Liu Han really wanted to move, the cavalry would attack, and he could stab Liangzhou's powerful heart from behind.
"The main thing is the Qiang people. Blindly killing or blindly appeasing is not a good idea. Now I am short of someone who can gain a foothold in Liangzhou."
Duan Yan was also thinking, after all, he could control Liangzhou, but how to alleviate the conflict between Han and Qiang, he could not do it.
The Qiang people's rebellion gave Liu Han great inspiration.
"Zhang Yan and the others can postpone coming to Bingzhou."
Dong Zhao was puzzled, this was different from what he just said, "Why is this?"
The sooner the refugees arrive, the sooner Youzhou can resume production.
"Zhongde, I think Zhang Yan and the others can run further south or east."
It was impossible for Cheng Yu not to understand what Liu Han meant, because he was the one who drove the "Yellow Turbans" in Youzhou to run around and put an end to the official army.
Only this time, it has to be the real Yellow Turban.
"My lord, what you said makes sense. We can take their families to Youzhou and resettle them. As for them, they can run away in Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and many other places."
Having said this, how could everyone not understand what Liu Han meant, which was to use Zhang Yan and others as knives to eliminate the powerful local nobles.
Wherever Zhang Yan ran, Liu Han could send people to follow him.
It is normal for the Yellow Turbans to harm the place, occupy counties and kill officials and local nobles!
What Liu Han had to do was to embezzle their wealth and land during this power vacuum period before the court sent people over again.
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion last year, with the help of the Mi Zhu and Zhen Yi families, Liu Han had taken advantage of the chaos to secretly acquire a large amount of land in Jizhou and Xuzhou.
"Oh, by the way, Master Duan, I have something to trouble you with."
"My lord, please speak."
"Master Duan, you also know that next year I will be weak and I will get married, so please send a message to Liangzhou to save face. It's better to be quiet next year, otherwise I will be angry."
"Hahahahahaha! Here."
Duan Jiong smiled, he must be the only one in this world who is so domineering.
(End of this chapter)