Chapter 43 Murder and arson?
?Several events that shocked the world occurred from June to July of the second year of the elephant.
At the end of last month, the rebels of Anzhou captured Xiangyang, the governor of Xiangzhou Prefecture, and the Xiangzhou army collapsed and the marshal Wang Yi was defeated and killed. Only the marching chief manager Cui Yanmu, who was suppressing the rebellion, led the Jingzhou army to confront the rebels across the river in Fancheng.
The news came in an uproar. The defeat of the Xiangzhou army in mid-June was shocking enough. A few days later, the Xiangyang City, which was known as a strong city, was actually broken! The rebellious Anzhou army now includes the entire area of the General Administration of the Huang and Huangzhou, and more than half of the territory of the General Administration of the General Administration of the Xiangzhou. They are really arrogant!
However, even bigger news is still coming: in mid-July, the marshal Wei Xiaokuan led his army to fight with the rebels led by Yuchi Jiong in the command of Yecheng, Xiangzhou Prefecture, and the imperial army was defeated!
On the day of the defeat, the news came thousands of miles a day to Chang'an, and the exact news was also known one after another: the imperial army was defeated first and then won, and finally reversed, with more than 100,000 troops only a few hundred people fled.
Marshal Wei Xiaokuan was injured in the battle formation and withdrew from the battlefield for several days and was seriously injured! Marshal Li Xun and his elite Bingzhou army were wiped out. The marshal Yu Wenxin was killed in a vain. The whereabouts of the marshal Cui Hongdu and his younger brother Cui Hongguang were unknown.
The military supervisor Gao Bing is now joining the defeated soldiers with the marching general Yuwen Shu and issued an urgent document to request the court to send reinforcements quickly, otherwise the situation will be irreversible.
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The General Administration of Yuzhou, Xuzhou and Haozhou were under the jurisdiction of various states and the governors who supported Xiangzhou. The General Administration of Yangzhou was restrained by Chen Guo, who was invading the northern offensive. There was a mess everywhere in Henan and Huainan.
The Xiangzhou rebels can also block the attack of Chang'an in Luoyang or Yubi City. The Anzhou rebels can also block the westward as long as they defend the Wuguan in the Qinling Mountains in the southeast of Chang'an. However, if the rebels in Yizhou cannot suppress Yang Jian's position, they may not be able to sit steadily!
If the third party general manager attacked from three directions, it was not that he could not stand it. However, when the aristocratic families that originally supported Yang Jian in Chang'an City, the clans and ministers would fight back and kill him, Yang Ni!
Just as the court was in a panic about this, the day after the news of Yecheng's defeat came, the news from Anzhou reached Chang'an was immediately confused: the messenger sent to the court after the Anzhou general manager Yuwen Liang captured Xiangyang and came to Chang'an, saying that the two sides seemed to have misunderstandings and that the general manager of Xiangzhou and Huangzhou general manager was empty and disgusting. Should the court consider arranging a new general manager to take office?
Both sides fought and still had blood flowing. Your Anzhou general manager attacked Huangzhou first and now occupied more than half of Xiangzhou counties. Then he told the court that this seemed like a misunderstanding and that the court had to appoint a new general manager. Are you sure that you are not funny?
This seemingly ridiculous news caused a stir in Chang'an City, because knowledgeable people can see that the Anzhou general manager was throwing a stone to ask for directions and showing weakness. It seems that Anzhou has reached its limit!
The left Prime Minister Yang Jian, who was sitting on pins and needles, got the news and was overjoyed when he was overwhelmed with a long drought!
The Anzhou general manager was surrendering. Yuwen Liang wanted to seek a title from the court and justified his own people as Xiangzhou and Huangzhou general manager. He seemed to no longer insist that Yang Jian was a traitor and both sides calmed down the war.
This is what Yang Jian dreamed of. Now, after the Xiangzhou army won a great victory, it will sooner or later go south to attack Luoyang. If the Anzhou army goes north to capture the Jingzhou general administration, it will be able to cooperate with the Xiangzhou army to attack Luoyang from north to south.
Not to mention whether Luoyang can defend or not, the situation east of Luoyang will be deteriorated by attacking the two sides will be corrupt. The Xiangzhou army will not rush to advance westward. As long as reinforcements are sent to take over the Yuzhou General Administration, Xuzhou General Administration, and Haozhou General Administration, the foundation of the rebels will be stable.
If we can use this to stabilize Anzhou for a period of time, we can first calm down the Yizhou general manager Wang Qian, and he can free up his hands to deal with the counterattack of Xiangzhou general manager Yuchi Jiong. It will not be too late to deal with Anzhou when the situation in Henan and Huainan stabilizes.
Yuwen Liang is indeed a mediocre person, just thinking about the land in front of him!
Yang Jian would not miss this fleeting opportunity. He immediately consulted with his aides on the same day he received the news. On the second day, he sent an envoy to Anzhou, southeast of Wuguan.
Without further ado, the Anzhou General Manager sent an envoy to test the possibility before the Battle of Yecheng. After a long delay, he knew that the victory of the Xiangzhou army might change. The worst result was that Yuchi Jiong sent someone to contact him and agreed to advance together in the north and south, which would be troublesome!
As long as the Anzhou Army can stabilize the conditions that are not too exaggerated, we will settle the score later!
The envoy rushed from the road to the Anzhou Prefecture Public Security Road in a light and simple manner, and rushed to the Anzhou Prefecture Public Security Road in a day to rush to stabilize Yuwen Liang before Weichi Jiong of Xiangzhou.
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Anlu, Anzhou General Administration Mansion.
Yuwen Liang was holding a family dinner, and he and Yuwen Wen and his wife were sitting at the big table for dinner.
In early May, Yu Wenming, Yu Wen and his family held a family dinner after coming to Anlu, followed by a series of major battles, first raiding Huangzhou and then facing the imperial army. Yu Wenming led an army alone to defend Suicheng, Suizhou Prefecture, while Yu Wenwen gnawed several hard bones with his father Yu Wenliang.
Now the father and son finally survived a disaster and could not enjoy the warmth of their family for a while. They were all men who went out to fight and returned home for more than a month. Yu Wenliang was old and his mind was fading. After two nights of time, his anger disappeared. However, Yu Wenming and Yu Wen were upright and bloody. The wife of Fang Gang's family was as beautiful as a flower to guard the empty room. This fire of fire cannot be destroyed in one or two days.
As soon as the sons brought their female relatives into the door, the old Duke saw that Yu Wenming and his wife, Yu Wen and his wife were both dull and frivolous, but the difference was that the two brothers were dazed and could not stand up, while the two daughters-in-law had rosy faces and their eyebrows were affectionate. It seemed that these two "cows" were very tired, and their "land" had been plowed a lot fertile.
That’s right. Work harder to spread the branches and leaves for the Yuwen family, especially Erlang!
After drinking and having enough food, Mrs. Yu Wenming, Mrs. Li, took her youngest son and Mrs. Yu Wenwen, were chatting about family affairs in a separate hall. Yu Wenliang and his son were transferred to the back hall, where the chief chief Du Shijun and other confidants had been waiting for a long time.
Without further ado, we got to the point and everyone talked about the current situation.
It was carefully considered to send envoys to surrender to the court, because the court only had tens of thousands of Jingzhou troops left in Cui Yanmu's hands to resist the Anzhou army's advance north, and if they were defeated, they would be unable to prevent Anzhou from capturing the Jingzhou General Administration, so the court may not dare to take risks.
The Anzhou army has indeed reached its limit. The newly occupied cities must be defended, the lost troops must be supplemented, the captured soldiers must be digested, and the Nanchen army entering Huangzhou must be driven away. We must also be wary of the Liang State's chaos.
Now it is an administrative team of the Anzhou General Administration to supervise the affairs of the Anzhou General Administration Office. The staff is short of manpower and the loyalty of the surrendered officials and generals is still to be discussed. The newly promoted officials and generals need time to adapt.
The army has been fighting for nearly two months, and the soldiers who urgently recruited the war need to rest and go home to reunite with their families. All of this takes time.
As for Xiangzhou, Yizhou can no longer care about whether to win or lose. He still needs to be strong himself. As long as Anzhou recovers after this period, he can fight for another 300 rounds!
I received news a few days ago that the court attached great importance to Anzhou's kindness and sent envoys to resolve the "misunderstanding" between the two sides. Why did you fight around if you have something to say?
In order to prevent the envoy from being killed by the "unidentified masses" halfway, the court specially sent people to contact Anzhou in advance to contact relevant matters. The Jingzhou Army will send people to escort the envoy from Fancheng to Xiangyang and take over by the Anzhou Army.
"The envoy sent by Yang Jian this time is the chief minister of the Prime Minister and the Duke of Pei, Zheng Yi." Yuwen Liang told the news he had just received today, "The deputy envoy is Huangfu Ji, the senior official of the Inner History."
Zheng Yi, the confidant of the late emperor Yuwen Yun, was also the "old lover" of the left prime minister Yang Jian; Huangfu Ji, who was well-read and talented, was the main counselor of the left prime minister Yang Jian and the grandson of the Duke of Yun, Wei Xiaokuan, and he had no need to say his loyalty to Yang Jian.
Among these two people, Zheng Yi is easy to say, but Huangfu Ji is difficult to deal with.
After analyzing, everyone agreed to the opinion: Zheng Yi was in charge of arguing with Anzhou, and Deputy Envoy Huangfu Ji was afraid that he would take the opportunity to spy on the inside of Anzhou and had to be careful.
Anyway, our main goals are two: the first is to let the court appoint Xiangzhou and Huangzhou general managers according to the Anzhou list, which is the most practical. The second is to wash away the name of the Anzhou army's "rebels" and the two sides will stop the troops, and the division of forces shall be based on the actual control scope.
As for why the two sides fought, it was just a "temporary workers" who caused it, "no one would think about this kind of thing."
Anyway, both sides have ulterior motives, and it will turn against each other again after a few months or two. It's just that each has its own needs.
Let's have a good fight then!
After setting the basic plan, the next thing is to strive for is Fancheng opposite Xiangyang, Changzhou, Caizhou to the west of Suizhou, and Fuzhou to the south of Mianzhou.
These places were originally under the rule of the Xiangzhou General Administration. Now, under the control of the Jingzhou army led by Cui Yanmu, Fuzhou has defected to the Jiangling General Administration on the west side.
Although the possibility of winning is very low, you have to take a bite no matter what. There is also the problem of Liang's position. If the Liang Dynasty's stinging men were restless and Yingzhou in the east and Xiangyang defenders in the north could not sleep well at night, they should also have a good talk.
Because of the successive victory, the confidants felt better. They felt that Anzhou had a good start and naturally became more enthusiastic. After a heated discussion with the three general manager Yuwen Liang and his son, they decided on a negotiation strategy.
Seeing that all the work was implemented, Yuwen Wen suddenly said: "Even if this negotiation is successful, I believe Yang Jian will not easily let Anzhou calm down."
Everyone nodded slightly when they heard this. If they were themselves, they wouldn't let the other party feel comfortable and eat all over their mouths.
"So if they ask for a nominal messenger, what if they actually enter Chang'an?"
As soon as this statement was expressed, the people present were silent. For Du Shijun and others, this question was not unthinkable, but the topic was too sensitive and he did not take the initiative to raise it. Yu Wen Liang deliberately avoided this question.
Both the imperial court and Anzhou were ulterior motives, but since Anzhou wanted a title, it meant that it had to show sincerity more or less. The one who could show sincerity in this era is the Proton.
Sooner or later, the person who stayed in Chang'an as a hostage is basically in danger of going to be in danger.
So the question is, who will be the proton of Yuwen Liang's eldest son Yu Wenming and the second son Yu Wen Wen?
"If the child really wants to do it at that time..." Yu Wenming took the lead in speaking.
Chapter completed!