Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The Northern Han Dynasty was shorter than the Great Zhou Dynasty. After Guo Wei marched into Tokyo, the Liu family proclaimed themselves emperor in Jinyang; but Jinyang City was too old, including this building complex as the imperial palace, which was not built by the Northern Han Dynasty. They had no money, and all their national power was spent on military affairs.

The old and mottled walls in the palace, even the paving bricks on the ground are broken, and have been repaired with some corner stones. The color of the whole house is gray and black.

Only some silk fabrics and decorations added a bit of brilliance, and the clothes on the head of the country, Liu Jun, were more decent. Liu Jun was walking back and forth in the warm pavilion. Outside the door, Minister Sikong Guo Yuan, General Yang Ye and Feng Jinke all bowed and bowed to wait. They could not look up or look at Liu Jun. They could only see the black figure shaking on the broken brick floor.

The emperor of the state of Zhou personally marched! Liu Jun felt fearful in his heart at this time, feeling that Zhou State was going to make a real effort this year; when the ministers talked about the situation of Zhou Dynasty at this time, they also judged that the Northern Han Dynasty should have become the main goal of Zhou Dynasty.

Liu Jun suddenly felt a little regretful at this moment. He regretted that he did not go all out to deal with the turbulent Zhou Dynasty at that time under the opportunity of Er Li's rebellion. People are like this, no matter how many times others explain the truth, if they don't understand it, it's useless.

In the past, he didn't want to make progress because he had neither confidence nor motivation. After the Battle of Gaoping, Zhou Guo Chai Rong led troops to besiege Jinyang for more than a month. Liu Jun personally felt that it was difficult to defeat Zhou Jun; in addition, he had no biological son, so he just wanted to protect himself. But now it is not easy to find self-protection.

At this moment, he came out of the door and said: "The Han army cannot retreat without a fight. We must send a large army to fight against the Zhou army, and try to repel the invaders outside Jinyang!"

Guo Yuan bowed and said, "The enemy soldiers are approaching fiercely, and I fear that the troops of the Han will not be enough."

Liu Jun said seriously: "Since ancient times, whoever has more people on the battlefield is not necessarily the one who will win. Otherwise, the winner will be determined by the number of people. Why fight again?"

Several ministers couldn't answer after listening.

Liu Jun immediately ordered Yang Ye to be the commander-in-chief, Feng Jinke to be the deputy commander-in-chief, and sent another supervising army, telling them to mobilize the elite guards to go south to resist the enemy.

...Yang Ye led the decree out of the palace city, and couldn't help stopping on the platform for a while to look at the surrounding scene. The scene of an ancient city is in sight. The sky is blue, but the ground is earthy and yellow. The tall city towers and the mountains below form a radiant trend. (Jinyang at this time is not in the urban area of ​​Taiyuan, but in the south of Taiyuan, south of Jinyang Lake, with mountains on the west side.)

This is the "Dragon City", because many emperors made their fortunes here after the fall of the Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of this city cannot be compared with the big cities in the Central Plains, but in Yang Ye's view, it is also a densely populated city...Compared to Linzhou, where he was born, it is indeed a vast place where he can display his talents.

Yang Ye's thoughts seemed to return to Linzhou, the hometown where he grew up, a small border town near the Great Wall. The loess gullies are everywhere, the yellow sand is all over the sky, and the surrounding area is sparsely populated. He came from a good background, his father was the governor of Linzhou, but he wanted to get out of that place since he was a child, looking forward to a bigger world. Jinyang, the dragon city, was once the land of dreams, and the weak crown went to Jinyang to join the Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty; his outstanding military exploits allowed him to gain a foothold in Jinyang and won the trust of the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Yang Ye calmed down, went home to say goodbye to his wife and concubines, and prepared to lead the army to go out.

The one who is most reluctant to part with his children is Hongying, the concubine who has had the shortest time with him. Hongying's teary eyes were full of tears, as if she was reluctant to part with her.

Yang Ye said kindly: "I am a military commander, and it is my duty to go out to fight, so you don't have to worry about it."

Hong Ying wiped away her tears with a silk scarf, and said with a sob: "The people of the Northern Han Dynasty who took refuge in Khitan are not good people in the first place. You don't have to work too hard, you must pay yourself..."

Yang Ye was taken aback when he heard this, but after a while he remembered that Hongying had been killed by the Khitan people, so it was understandable to say this, so he didn't think much about it.

A woman knows that collusion with the Liao State is not a righteous cause, how can Yang Ye not understand? Not only Yang Ye, but I am afraid that the ruler of the Northern Han Dynasty and most of the Han people did not have a good opinion of the Liao Kingdom, but how could the Northern Han Dynasty confront the central government without relying on the Liao Kingdom?

"We are not the same as the Liao Kingdom. This is an exchange between countries. I can't explain a few sentences clearly." Yang Ye reassured.

Hongying was pear blossoming and raining again, and said softly: "With your name and ability, no matter whoever votes, he will be reused."

Yang Ye let out a "hum", and didn't want to talk to a woman anymore.

This woman said it lightly, the voter can vote casually? Can a capable person like Zhao Kuangyin be important in the Northern Han Dynasty? Yang Ye was able to occupy the position of general of the Northern Han Dynasty, not only because he was good at fighting, but also because he was weak and followed the founding emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty.

From the point of view of righteousness, of course the Northern Han Dynasty was criticized, and no one would think that collusion with a foreign enemy country is righteous. After all, the Northern Han Dynasty is not the Liao Kingdom...Compared with righteousness, Yang Ye feels that his personal loyalty to the monarch is more valued by the world. No matter which monarch it is, the first thing to look at is probably not whether a person understands righteousness, but whether his loyalty is reliable. Now that Da Zhou is strong, if Yang Ye "abandon the dark and turn to the bright" immediately, he doesn't think it is a good thing.

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Before the Northern Han army went out, Guo Shao had already learned that the main general of the Northern Han army who was going to fight was Yang Ye.

He returned the paper in his hand to Jing Niang for safekeeping, looked back at the generals and ministers around him and said, "As soon as we enter the border of the Northern Han Dynasty, there will be a war. The person we have to deal with in the first battle is Yang Ye."

Wang Pu immediately said: "This person has a good reputation, known as 'Yang Wudi'."

Li Chuyun said with a smile: "A few years ago, the Northern Han Dynasty had a famous first fierce general, Zhang Yuanhui, who was shot to death by the officials. Today, another Yang Wudi came, just in time to launch a battle to sacrifice the flag for the Great Zhou army!"

Guo Shao was noncommittal, but he paid extra attention to this Yang Ye... because of the general of the Yang family! Although Yang Ye was quite famous at this time, he claimed to be invincible, but it was only because he knew how to fight; in this war-torn world, there are many generals who know how to fight, so the current Yang Ye may not be as famous as the later generations.

The image left by the Yang family to Guo Shao mainly comes from film and television, and he is the anti-Liao hero in the Song Dynasty. No matter what, Guo Shao didn't want to kill Yang Ye at all. In his impression... Even Song Taizong who was so vigilant and afraid of martial arts could accept Yang Ye, why couldn't he?

"Continue to go north with Shi Yanchao as the striker. When we meet Yang Ye, we will start a decisive battle head-on!" Guo Shao said.

He looked up and saw that the people and horses in the valley were advancing along the winding valley road like a black torrent.

At this time, Zhang Guanghan's troops, originally stationed in Liaozhou, had merged with the main force of Guo Shao's army, with a total strength of more than 50,000 troops, and they were now marching near the border of the Northern Han Dynasty. It is surrounded by low mountains of loess with endless layers of ravines, roughly hundreds of miles south of Jinyang; it is probably located between Taiyue Mountain and the eastern section of Taihang Mountain, and should belong to the remaining vein of Taiyue Mountain. This mountain area is continuous, but it is not so steep in comparison.

The road is not easy to walk, the best way is to take the road along the Fen River on the west side of Taiyue Mountain. However, Guo Shao's early elite soldiers chose Qinlu Plateau because the road was relatively short and he wanted to advance to Jinyang as soon as possible. The road the army took was along a dry river valley. It was the route that the late emperor took advantage of to attack Jinyang after his victory in the Gaoping War. Guo Shao walked it once... so he knew that the water source on this road was also reliable. If there is no water source on the road when a team of tens of thousands marches, it will really be a big problem.

There were dull sounds of hooves and footsteps all around. The team was crawling slowly. Guo Shao rode on horseback, talking to the people around him from time to time. On the road, riding a frame is really not as easy as riding a horse.

The natural conditions in this mountain are not as good as those in the Central Plains. The wind carries sand and is very dry. The scenery is valleys except for ravines. Moreover, the vegetation at this time seemed to be declining. Anyway, it was February, and there was still a large area of ​​bare loess on the mountain, with only sparse shrubs and wormwood. Sometimes you can see flowering trees on the side of the mountain, and you can feel the breath of spring. Often at this time, the soldiers have to turn their heads and wait and see.

I did not encounter any resistance along the way, and it was like this for several days. One day, when he walked beside a large lake, Guo Shao recalled that he knew that the mountainous area had come to an end.

In the afternoon, when Guo Shao walked along the lakeside road and crossed the lakeside, the front suddenly opened up.

However, the terrain is still not a plain. The east side is still a hillside with ravines, and the front and west sides are relatively flat land. Those lands are dry and rarely planted with crops. From a distance, Guo Shao reminds Guo Shao of things like puff pastry, because the land looks like layers of high and low. You have to go further north to reach the plain area in the south of Jinyang.

The Northern Han army was defending. After leaving Jinyang, Yang Ye should wait for work in a relatively nearby place, and it may not be far away.

Guo Shao asked the generals of the scout battalion to inquire, but still did not find a large number of the Northern Han army. That night, he sent someone to the forward to deliver the decree, ordering the officials in the military mansion who wrote the military order: "Tell Shi Yanchao to send more cavalry in front, first find out where the Northern Han army is, and then don't rush into it. Our army has come from a long distance, and the men and horses are exhausted. First, choose a place to station and repair, and wait for the follow-up army to follow up."

Guo Shao figured it out, Shi Yanchao still obeyed the rules and military orders in battle, but he was not a calm person; moreover, this guy was harder to control than Lin Renzhao, Lin Renzhao at least listened to Liu Renzhan, Shi Yanchao didn't listen to anyone, only the emperor could use him.

Fearing that he would underestimate the enemy and rush forward, Yang Ye would demoralize him first. Guo Shao was not at ease, and asked Dong Zunhui to lead the third army cavalry and mounted infantry to deploy behind Shi Yanchao's right flank, and Zhang Guanghan led the Long Jie army cavalry of the two armies to the left flank.

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