I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 396
Of course Queen Mother Dou wanted to see Zhou Yafu.

As the actual controller of the Han Dynasty today, Empress Dowager Dou must of course meet with this authoritative person to determine how this war might end.

Zhou Yafu was obviously also mentally prepared for this, and without a moment's delay, he followed the eunuch sent by Empress Dowager Dou into the Changle Palace.

chatted a lot;

Empress Dowager Dou and Zhou Yafu talked a lot.

From lamenting Zhou Yafu's past to wishing Zhou Yafu's future;

From the humiliation of the Han Dynasty when it faced the Huns, to the difficulties it is facing now.

After more than two hours of long talks, Empress Dowager Dou finally made up her mind to support this war that should not have broken out so early or at this time.

The emperor personally promoted it, and the empress dowager clearly expressed her support. All the people inside and outside the court were united, and the people all over the world were full of joy!
Under this unprecedented unity, the war machine that had been dormant for many years once again roared in this piece of China.

"Da Lang is on the battlefield, he should judge the situation and make a decisive decision!"

This is the elderly father and grandfather passing on his only experience to the children and grandchildren who are about to go to war.

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"In this battle, if you can't bring back the heads of three or five Huns, then don't call someone an adult again!"

This is the meritorious nobles who have lived in Chang'an for a long time, using what they think is the most appropriate way to motivate their nephews who are about to lead the army.

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"Let's go safely, you, the old and the young at home, there will be someone to take care of you..."

This is a brave Han woman who is making a promise to her lover, and secretly promises to marry you when she comes back alive.

It is in this inexplicably tragic and slightly weird orderly, one after another figure carries a new bag, a long sword around his waist, and the only longbow in the family across his back. Watched by friends and lovers, he walked out of the house.

Yu bowed farewell outside the house, and each walked towards the place where the local soldiers and civilian husbands gathered.

Chang'an was not idle either.

To be precise, even the people in the most prosperous and affluent capital city of this era are not idle.

——This battle is based on the northern army, one of the two forbidden armies in Chang'an, as the framework for the entire army.

From the three divisions of the Northern Army's eight school lieutenants, a total of 6000 people, without exception, completed the promotion of the soldiers to the chief of the army, the chief of the army to the chief of the army, the chief of the army to the chief of the village, and the chief of the village to the chief of the qu. Temporary job promotions during wartime.

Originally 2000 people each, a total of 6000 people in the three divisions of the Northern Army, also expanded to three partial armies with 3 people each, a total of [-] people.

If nothing else, this war is a contest between these 3 people and the invading enemy.

The Northern Army, as one of the only two forbidden armies of the Han family, was entirely sourced from the soldiers of the "Liangjiazi in Guanzhong".

In other words: the Northern Army is the soldiers of Guanzhong;

For these soldiers who are about to go to war, the people of Chang'an feel melancholy and tragic, but more importantly, they are still proud.

"Lang Jun, Lang Jun!"

"These chickens, my old hen just laid them, take them with you and eat them on the road!"

"When I'm full, kill a few more Xiongnu barbarians for me!!"

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"Hey, it's just some coarse cloth, just put it on."

"It's almost the end of autumn, and the northern border is already bitterly cold, don't be too cold to wield a sword..."

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"How polite are you kid?"

"No matter how precious this sword is, if it can't cut down the barbarian Xiongnu, isn't it still a pile of scrap metal?"

"Take it!"

"If you really want to repay my old man's kindness, then bring back a few Xiongnu heads!"

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"It's not wine or wine, it's just some honey water..."

"You stubborn cow, why are you so ignorant?"

"It's really going to be in front of that Hu Qi, why don't you warm up your body and strengthen your courage?"

In the hearts of the people in Guanzhong, the Northern Army has always been an undoubted famous brand.

Obviously, the Guanzhong people do not hesitate to maintain their own cards in any way.

On the street is such a warm scene of soldiers and civilians living in fish and water, and above the court hall, it is even more orderly and busy.

The money in the Shaofu was opened;
The treasury of Xiangfu was opened;
Chang'an Taicang also opened.

Dry food made of corn, coarse cloth with hemp as the carrier, live cattle, sheep and livestock, as well as various dried fruit peels and sauces were all sent to the northern border first.

Weapons such as swords, halberds, bows, feathers and arrows followed closely behind.

Starting from Chang'an, the slowly expanding army along the way finally drove to the battlefield.

The breath of war quietly fell between the heaven and the earth.

At the same time, Cheng Bushi, who had been transferred to Yanmen County in advance, finally arrived at the place where Zhidu, the prefect of Yanmen, took the letter sent to him by Zhou Yafu.

Mayi.

The Han family suffered huge losses, and even almost lost the sadness of the founding emperor...

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"Yanmen..."

"Yanmen Pass..."

"Yanmen Ancient Pass~"

Standing at the head of Mayi city, Zhidu did not look towards the direction of the Huns: the north, but looked towards the south, which was guarded by Mayi behind him.

And beside Zhidu, seeing Zhidu facing the direction inside the side wall, sighing the word "Yanmen", Cheng Bushi couldn't help sighing.

"Ah~"

"Thinking back in those days, Zhao Wuling King Hufu rode and shot, defeated the Linhu, Loufan and other tribes who invaded the northern border of Zhao State, and set up three counties: Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Dai."

"Afterwards, the famous general Li Mu was stationed at Yanmen to guard against the barbarians in the grassland."

"In the battle that year, Li Mu defeated the Xiongnu with more than [-] elite cavalry, so that the Huns did not dare to approach the northern border of Zhao State for more than ten years."

"It's just that the once weak Xiongnu tribe has now become a barbarian country that rules all the tribes on the grassland;"

"Facing the Hufu Zhao Qi of the Huns, he also changed the elite infantry of our Han family..."

Saying so, Cheng Bushi just sighed again, and then lowered his head full of bitterness.

Elite infantry is just a nice way of saying it.

Remove the word 'elite', and only pawns remain.

Just like the Han family who can only contend with infantry phalanx when facing a large group of Huns cavalry...

"I'm not nostalgic for the past."

"I was thinking: After this battle, should I suggest to Your Majesty to renovate Yanmen Ancient Pass?"

"——After all, back then, when King Wuling of Zhao rode and shot in Hufu, all the savages in the grassland were fleeing with their heads in their arms. Yanmen Pass was the most important pass in Zhaobei."

"Although so many years have passed, but in the face of the invasion of foreign cavalry, Yanmen Pass should still be able to play its due role?"

As he said that, Zhi couldn't help turning his head slightly, and looked at the classmates beside him, or that the younger brother Cheng didn't know him.

Seeing that Cheng didn't know how to hear the words, he immediately stood at the head of the north city wall of Mayi, just like Zhidu before, but followed the direction of the city, and turned his eyes to the direction of Yanmen Pass to the south of Mayi.

"Um······"

"You can write to the teacher for advice."

"After all, the two of us can already be regarded as the center of Jiuli Temple."

"Whether we can and should do this, I am afraid only the teacher can give us the answer..."

Regarding Cheng Bushi's views, Zhi was noncommittal.

Compared with Cheng Bushi, Zhi Du's understanding of Chang'an Chaotang is naturally a little deeper.

——After all, no matter how you say it, he was also a cruel official who once served as a lieutenant, an official as high as two thousand stones, and earned the reputation of "Goshawk" in Chang'an.

If it weren't for today's son, Liu Sheng, the former crown prince, and not the late Emperor Xiaojing Liu Qi, Zhi would even dare to pat his chest and say: No matter how long I leave Chang'an and the court, I will never be negligent. Temple high'!
But today, everything is different.

The former lieutenant has become the current Yanmen guard—the Yanmen guard who has committed crimes and made meritorious service;
The former royal doctor, single-handedly promoted the policy of cutting down the vassals, and Chao Cuo, the culprit who caused the outbreak of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion between Wu and Chu, became the guard of the North. The north guard.

Coupled with the imminent battle, even if Zhi Du didn't want to, he could only admit that what Cheng Bushi said was indeed the most appropriate way at the moment.

——It's really inconvenient to wear a sinful body.

Even if he wanted to propose to today's Zisheng to renovate Yanmen Pass, at least it would have to be when Zhidu returned to Chang'an to report the situation in person after the battle.

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"The best thing is to bring the news of the great victory and implore His Majesty..."

Thinking like this, and finally looking towards the defense line where Yanmen Pass is located, Zhi Du finally looked away helplessly from a distance.

Turning sideways, he was finally facing his junior brother Cheng Buzhi. After looking up and down for a while, he grinned slightly.

"Your Majesty has sent an edict and a military talisman."

"In this battle, I will be the commander, and you will be the deputy commander."

"My brothers and sisters, I have waited for such a good opportunity."

"Even the teacher, it is unavoidable that he is worried about this battle. He has already sent no less than three copies of the remnants of the military book..."

Saying so, Zhi Du did not forget to lower his head with a wry smile, and took out a thick stack of white paper from his bosom.

Waiting to raise his head, he was about to hand over the book of war in his hand, but found that the junior brother Cheng Buzhi in front of him also took out a stack of exact white papers from his bosom with a wry smile just like his own... ····
"This······"

"Hi·········"

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"This battle really made the teacher..."

Each sighed, smiled wryly, and each took the military book copied on the white paper back into their arms as a treasure, and then turned their bodies to the outside of the city wall;

Looking to the north of Mayi, the several miles wide path between the two mountains, the two brothers and sisters all looked solemn in unison.

A moment later, the two took a deep breath in an extremely tacit understanding, and put their hands on the wall of the wall.

"Ma Yi."

"Obviously it is a very suitable place for ambushes, but now there is a war of 'declaring war first'."

"It's really reckless..."

Hearing Zhidu's exclamation, Cheng Bushi nodded in embarrassment.

He patted his palm on the wall lightly, and the expression of regret on his face deepened accordingly.

For both Han and Hungarians, Mayi is by no means an unfamiliar place.

More than 50 years ago, the king-to-king battle between the supreme rulers of the Han and the Hungarians—the Battle of Pingcheng between the Han and the Hungarians began with Mayi.

At that time, Han Xin of the former Han royal family was granted the title of King of Han, and under the order of Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang, he was stationed on the side wall of Zhaobei and Daibei.

After the extreme defense line construction period, Han Wangxin took the initiative to ask to move the king's capital from Jinyang North to Mayi, so as to better, faster and more conveniently organize the defense of the border wall.

Emperor Taizu Gao agreed.

This promise planted the root of disaster that should not have been planted for the subsequent Pingcheng Battle.

——Mayi is the junction of the Han and Hungarian forces, and the absolute front line after the war broke out.

To the north of Mayi, the Han family has only one Wuzhou Fortress in the nature of an early warning station, which can warn the Mayi beacon tower more than a hundred miles behind.

It was the same with the war back then.

The Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun swung his army southward, Wuzhou was surrounded by beacons to warn, and Mayi was ready to fight;
It's just that from Wuzhou to Mayi, the distance is only more than a hundred miles, so that Han Wangxin in Mayi city had not had time to stop the city defense before he received the news that the Xiongnu Shanyu envoy had come to see him.

Perhaps out of the consideration of procrastinating time, Han Wangxin received the envoy sent by Suoda Maodun.

Then, Han Wangxin surrendered.

Xian Wang's capital, Mayi, was in Suotan Maodun, and he led tens of thousands of frontier guards under his command, turned their guns, and approached their own land: Daiguo.

— yes;
Han Wangxin's "Korea" is actually the current Dai country.

The border guards turned their backs, and the Great Wall's defense line was completely in chaos because of the gap in Mayi. Even the wise and mighty Emperor Gao had no choice but to march in person at the first time;

And the final result of this king vs. king was that Han Taizu Liu Bang first won and then lost, and when the Xiongnu Shanyu Shuan Maodun lured the enemy to go deep, he finally fell into the siege of Baideng Mountain.

It was also this battle that established the Han family's more than 50-year-old strategic policy of "peace with the Huns to secure the outside, and slowly and slowly the soil to secure the inside".

Until today, until the throne of the Han family, through Taizu Liu Bang, Xiaohui Liu Ying, former young Liu Gong, later young Liu Hong, Taizong Liu Heng, and Xiaojing Liu Qi, passed down to the seventh generation of emperors: today's Liu Sheng.

It is also until today that Mayi, an important military town that once stood on the border of Han and Hungary, has reappeared in the field of vision of the known world...

"North of Mayi and south of Wuzhou are the trails between these two mountains."

"Although the diameter is dozens of miles wide, as long as you pass through Wuzhou, the Huns will be regarded as entering the urn."

"It is only necessary to hide enough troops on these two mountains, and immediately cut off the enemy's retreat after the Huns crossed the Wuzhou Fortress..."

Looking scorchingly at the outside of the city wall, Zhi Du subconsciously licked the corners of his lips and even swallowed lightly at the natural ambush terrain sandwiched between the two mountains.

And beside Zhidu, Rao has always been known for his "rule-based" way of running the army, and Cheng Bushi couldn't help but shake his head regretfully.

"Pity."

"In this battle, both the enemy and us know what to expect - we know that the Huns will definitely come, and the Huns also know that we will definitely stand ready in Mayi."

"In a war like this where the enemy and we both know each other well, the option of ambush no longer exists."

"The only thing the two of us need to consider now is actually: whether to stick to Mayi."

"According to my opinion, in this battle, His Majesty's task for the two of us is 'If you don't lose a lot, you win'."

"So I tend to stick to it."

"But the final decision must be made by the coach."

"I just hope that senior brother will think clearly: now, senior brother and the guard of the North are still wearing the body of guilt..."

(End of this chapter)