Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 12 Legendary Woman

Chapter No.16 Legendary Woman

Ever since he was inoculated with cowpox by Gao Jingzong in a simple and rude way, Ran Yu started to have a fever and a real rash appeared on his body.Seven days later, Ran Yu's body began to subside, and his body temperature returned to normal at the same time.Most of the other people who were inoculated with vaccinia were similar, but this is not absolute. Seventeen people died of vaccinia in Jiziying, while there were more people who defected from other places, with 39 deaths.

Watching as many as 56 people die with his own eyes, Gao Jingzong even had nightmares for several days.But Gao Jingzong didn't know that if he hadn't brutally inoculated these people with cowpox, the death toll would have increased by more than ten times.After Ran Yu recovered, he was a little weak. After all, even if someone had a fever for seven days, his body couldn't take it anymore.

After Ran Yu recovered, he found that the Wild Wolf Valley had changed drastically, turning into a huge construction site.There are as many as 300 stone quarrymen in the mountain. Some of the stones quarried are processed into stone rolls or stone mills, and more are processed into stone materials to build a protective wall.Almost no one in the Wild Wolf Valley is idle. Those who cut down trees and burn charcoal burn charcoal, those who quarry rock salt to make salt start to make salt, and of course there are those who reclaim wasteland and cultivate land.

Ran Yu said: "Brother Gao, you made all this up?"

Gao Jingzong smiled proudly: "Of course, it's not me, is there anyone else?"

"What are you trying to do like this!" Ran Yu didn't understand Gao Jingzong's behavior very much. To save lives can be said to be Gao Jingzong's compassion and compassion, but Ran Yu couldn't figure out how to take in those outsiders without restriction.

Gao Jingzong said mysteriously: "Didn't I tell you that I want to help you form an iron army, and we will fight back to Hebei together and drive the Xianbei, Di, and Qiang people out of the Central Plains?"

"You said that, didn't I think you were bragging?" Ran Yu continued, "I really can't figure it out, even if it is forming an army, what does it have to do with this?"

"Hey, you are just a material for charging into battle. How can you not understand that fighting is actually fighting for money." Gao Jingzong patted Ran Yu on the shoulder, motioned him to sit down, and said: "Although I don't know the art of war , but I also know that your father’s defeat was a bit unjust. If your father hadn’t been so pedantic at that time, he had instigated Wei Guofan’s surrender in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, especially Zhou Cheng, the governor of Xuzhou, Wei Tong, the governor of Yanzhou, Zhang Yu, Mu Zhangyu, and Le Hong, the governor of Jingzhou. When they took refuge in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they directly led troops to quell the rebellion. At that time, the situation in Wei State would never collapse so quickly. Look at how rich Xuzhou, Jingzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou are. These are the essence of the Central Plains. Wei State lost The land of the four states lost its financial resources and was unable to raise troops. If Wei had a lot of food and grass at that time, even if the battle of Liantai failed, he could organize another army and fight head-on with Yan's army. At that time, Yan was already considered by your father With only half a life left, they spent two or three years in the former Yan Kingdom before sending [-] soldiers to the south."

Winners and losers shouted at each other, and pointed to who is going to manipulate Dong Hu.As the saying goes, winners and losers have been orderly since ancient times.Ran Min was defeated, but the Murong family of Xianbei had won the country for more than [-] years. The Murong family of Xianbei tried their best to discredit Ran Min to prove his legitimacy.As a result, Ran Min was given titles such as "Cold-Blooded Butcher" and "Cruel Butcher".If Ran Min is really as human-faced, cruel, heartless, and ungrateful as described in "Book of Jin" and "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", then the soldiers of the Wei State should abandon the dark and turn to the bright to bring order out of chaos.However, the real fact is that all the soldiers under Ran Min fought to the death, and no one surrendered.The city of Ye was destroyed, the country was destroyed, the ministers of Ran Wei committed suicide and died for the country, and those who surrendered and rebelled were only a few cases.Qin, Han, Wei and Jin never had a minister who committed suicide after the subjugation of the country. The suicide due to the subjugation started from Ran Min's Wei country, which also shows that Ran Min was not unpopular.

Ran Yu scratched his head and said, "I don't understand these things!"

"Aren't we good brothers?" Gao Jingzong put his arms around Ran Yu and said, "You don't understand, don't you still have me? I understand these things. We are here to make salt and sell it, in exchange for grain and steel, to build weapons, and let the citizens Uncle and Uncle Feng selected young men from the refugees and trained them into an army, let's look for an opportunity to go north and recover the Central Plains!"

Gao Jingzong clearly remembered that in October of the third year of Shengping, that is, four or five months later, the Eastern Jin Dynasty sent Xie Wan, a guy who could only talk about military affairs on paper, as the commander-in-chief to carry out the Northern Expedition to Qianyan.As a result, Xie Wan didn't fight a battle, and saw that Bei Zhonglang sent Xi Tan back to Pengcheng due to illness.Xie Wan mistakenly thought that Xi Tan retreated because of the strength of the former Yan army, so he hastily withdrew.The soldiers were defeated on their own, and Xuchang, Yingchuan, Qiaojun, Peijun and other counties under the Yuzhou rule all fell.Xie Wandan escaped in embarrassment and was deposed as a commoner.

This is the best opportunity for the rise of the Jiziying. If Xie Xuan left the town independently and formed the Beifu Army, there would be no Jiziying at that time.The Eastern Jin Dynasty could rely on the remaining prestige of the Battle of Feishui to keep Zhu Hu from going south.Until the demise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the strategy was on the initiative. There was no way. The more than 100 million troops of Di Qin included the soldiers and horses of the northern Hu tribes.

This Beifu army is also one of the top ten iron armies in Chinese history. Even if Gao Jingzong is proficient in the art of war, he may not be able to defeat the Beifu army.

Ran Yu said: "Then what should I do?"

Gao Jingzong said with a smile: "I made a rough calculation. Among us, there are about 15 teenagers aged 200 to [-]. You gather them up and form an army alone. You train them in combat skills, and I teach them how to fight. General way, this will be your team in the future!"

The Jin Dynasty followed the Han military system, which was five men for one army, ten men for one team, five teams for one team, two teams for one village, and five villages for one song. With 200 people, both of them can make a Dubo.Ran Yu said very excitedly: "Okay, I'll call them for training now!"

Gao Jingzong went to find Ji Kan and Feng Lei again, and told them not to relax their arms.The salt mine in Wild Wolf Valley is a cornucopia. As long as it produces benefits, it will immediately attract the prying eyes of the surrounding powers.There is a saying that everyone is innocent and guilty, and this salt mine is the source of their troubles.

Ji Kan and Feng Lei thought it was the same reason, so they organized all the young and strong to conduct military training for an hour after the day's work.But at this time, the Jizi Battalion was short of weapons, especially the armor. The entire battalion didn't even have a single piece of armor.Fortunately, Gao Jingzong was able to adapt, and asked people to cut off the extension wood, make it into a spear shape, and harden the spear head (burn it in the fire). Such a simple wooden spear is powerless when facing armor, but it is difficult to face it. For a person without armor, a stab is still a hole.

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In Jiankang Eastern Jin Dynasty Imperial Palace Xianyang Hall, a young man wearing a bright yellow casual robe and no crown on his head was lying on the square couch in the empty hall, his thinning hair was tied into a very delicate bun.A person's health can actually be seen from his hair. This boy's hair is thin and yellow, which is obviously due to insufficient kidney water.Although this person was about seven feet seven inches tall, he was very thin, with no flesh on his cheeks, his hands were skinny, his face was pale, and his eyes were slightly closed.

This person is none other than Sima Dan, Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.Sima Dan was the fifth emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His father was Jin Kangdi Sima Yue, and his mother was a famous strong woman in history.Three years after Sima Dan entered Shengping, his health deteriorated, he often coughed, and occasionally hemoptysis.

Sitting next to Sima Dan is Chu Suanzi, a graceful and luxurious woman wearing a phoenix crown.Chu Suanzi is a legend in Chinese history, she assisted six emperors in her life.Three times out of the mountains to listen to politics behind a curtain.One-third of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in her hands.Chu Suanzi hadn't had a good night's sleep for five days. Although she put on a lot of makeup, she couldn't hide her tiredness.Chu Suanzi was also very difficult. His only son was frail and sick. He searched for good doctors, but his suffering did not improve.And there was no one in the imperial court who could make her feel at ease.

Taiwei Huanwen wrote a letter recommending General Xizhong Lang, Yuzhou Mu, Fake Festival, Superintendent of Henan and Hebei and the military forces of the four prefectures, Huainan prefect Xie Wantong, Xu, Yang, Henan, and Qing (Qiaozhou) four prefectures to attack Yan Guo in the north.The reason is very good. The former Emperor of Yan, Murong Jun, made a clear decree to the world, and the households were drafted for winter training, preparing to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty the next year (that is, AD 1960, [-]).If the former Yan State is prepared, the Eastern Jin Dynasty will be very passive. The Eastern Jin Dynasty must not stand still and must preemptively disrupt the strategic deployment of the former Yan State.

As for Huan Wen's selfishness in recommending Xie Wan, she didn't need to think about it with her head, even if she thought about it with her knees.Chu Suanzi’s biological mother, Xie Zhenshi, is Xie Kun’s daughter, former Zhenxi General Xie Shangxie Renzu’s sister, and now Xi Zhonglang General Xie Wan is Xie Zhenshi’s cousin, Xie Wan is also Chu Suanzi’s uncle. .Because the Xie and Chu families are related by marriage, Chu Suanzi is familiar with the children of the Xie family in Yangxia, Chenjun.However, Xie Shi has a brilliant literary talent, extraordinary bearing, and magnanimity, and has a good reputation among scholars.But Xie Wan is a very flamboyant person, definitely not a good commander.

The reason why Huan Wen recommended Xie Wan actually had three purposes.Huanwen was the largest feudal town in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and controlled the Xifu Army, the largest field military force in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.This field army destroyed Cheng Han, defeated Qianyan, and defeated Di Qin. It can be regarded as an invincible iron army of Zhanbian, Di Xianbei, and Qiang Hu.At the beginning, the imperial court saw that Huan Wenping had destroyed the Han Dynasty and had the merit of destroying the country, so he pushed Yin Hao out to fight Huan Wen, but Yin Hao was too muddy to support the wall. He failed twice in the Northern Expedition, lost generals, and then became Huan Wen. , Huanwen succeeded in the second Northern Expedition and successfully recovered Luoyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty. At this time, Huanwen was in the limelight for a while.

Second, show your mind to the world.The real rise of the Xie family is actually inseparable from Huan Wen's support.Huan Wen has very good personal relationships with Xie Shang, Xie Yi, Xie Wan, and Xie An.Since Xie Shang became the governor of Yuzhou, the Xie clan has become a feudal town of Yuzhou.Xie Yi (Huan Wen's former Sima) was promoted by Huan Wen to be the shepherd of Yuzhou.When Huan Wen recommended Xie Wan again, it was to show the world: "I can eat meat with my brother."

In the end, it was to show goodwill to Chu Suanzi. After all, Xie Shang had no children, and Xie Kun's lineage was cut off. Xie Zhenshi's mother's family only had the second wife, Xie Po, left.

(End of this chapter)