Chapter 432 The Forbidden Army Goes To Battle
Yu Siying, the King of Qin and the Emperor are brothers. Yu Gong is now clearly showing signs of Sima Lun usurping the throne, so he cannot sit idly by. Now it is difficult to distinguish between enemies and enemies within the entire royal family, and Sima Ying cannot wait. This is not the only problem Sima Ying encounters. The same is true for other vassal kings, and the entire royal family is suspicious of each other.
Especially the several vassal kings with military power, they wanted to fly to Hangu Pass to see what was going on. They couldn't believe the news sent back by various spies now. No matter which side the news tends to, they might be smoke bombs deliberately released.
Most vassal kings avoided premature statements, causing the effect of attacking them from groups, and were made into a dimensionality reduction attack by a two-way foil. How unworthy it is.
However, there are two types of vassal kings not in the capital. One is the vassal kings who come out to the town, hold a strong army with one place, and the other is the vassal kings who don’t have many large armies. Among them, there are Sima Ying, Sima Yi, Sima Ji, and Sima Ji. The situation is quite special. He has an army in his hands and can still fight border troops, but the scale is far from that of several military towns. He also has to recruit strong men to supplement his military strength before he can fight.
Sima Ying, Sima Jie and others needed a longer preparation time, so if you want to help the King of Qin, Sima Ying could not delay any time now, because the foundation was not as good as a few military towns, so you had to prepare earlier.
Li Mi, the prefect of Jianwei, Huo Gu, the prefect of Wenshan, and Mr. Chen, the captain of the Western Yi, looked at each other, and they were all moved. According to Lu Zhi, there was also the addition of Sima Lu, the King of Fanyang. This matter was completely different. Among the several military towns, Xuchang was the closest to Luoyang. Once Sima Lu, the King of Fanyang, raised his troops, it was even faster than the King of Qin's army.
Furthermore, there are only a few military towns with heavy troops. As long as there is a second military town attacking Luoyang, the chances of victory are still quite large. After weighing the pros and cons, several people knelt down at Sima Ying and said, "I am willing to follow Your Highness to clear the emperor's side."
"Okay, with the wise men of the country, my country will not fall." Sima Ying clenched her fists and said that she was the words of Sima Yun, the king of Huainan. He was the son of Emperor Wu. As his younger brother, Sima Lun, who opposed the usurpation of the throne, was of course the responsibility of Sima Lun.
"Lu Zhi, you wrote a letter to Yang Yu of Chang'an to show that my king is willing to support the country. The King of Qin is my king's elder brother, and this is called out. In addition, the road to Yizhou was occupied by the governor of Liangzhou Luo Shang. My king meant that once I sent troops, I hope that Guanzhong could send an army south. If Luo Shang was smart, he would not resist to the end." Successfully persuaded a group of important civil and military officials in Yizhou. Sima Ying's thinking was still very clear, and she understood that if she wanted to successfully leave Yizhou, she would not come out to cause trouble.
Now that Sima Cambodia's army has advanced eastward, if Luo Shang obeyed Sima Lun's orders, he would definitely lead the Liangzhou army to fight in the north, but this did not happen, which shows that the governor of Liangzhou is currently watching and not following Sima Lun's orders.
If this is the case, Sima Ying believes that if he led the Yizhou army to the north and could be supported by Yang Yu, the north and the south would pose a threat to Luo Shang, and Luo Shang would be very likely to surrender.
After sending away several Yizhou civil and military officials, Sima Ying received the secret letter written by Lu Zhi. After a while, she saw that there was no problem and nodded to greet someone to send it to Chang'an.
Then Sima Ying sent someone to call Li Te to the royal palace to discuss secretly. As early as when he entered Yizhou, Sima Ying saw the powerful Li Te brothers among the refugees. When Jia Hou flew out of Luoyang and passed by Liangzhou, Sima Ying consciously gathered the power of the refugees, and even used the excuse to kill and clean up the powerful people with too high prestige.
The purpose is to one day avenge Empress Jia. Now Empress Jia has been killed, but this move is still useful. If more than 100,000 refugees use it, it is still a force that cannot be underestimated, and it is more than enough to conquer tens of thousands of soldiers.
Even Sima Ji in Youzhou could not make an accurate judgment from the current situation. This Eight Kings Rebellion was different from the one in history from the beginning. With him taking the lead in contacting the Xianbei people first, Hejian King Sima Yong put the means of winning over Liu Yuan in Bingzhou, and Sima Ying also used the Li Te brothers who were exiled to Yizhou.
In history, the Eight Kings Rebellion, together with the Luoyang Imperial Army and the army of various major military towns, all the participating vassal kings began to win over the Hu people and replenish the damaged troops. This time, the vassal kings consciously wooed the Hu people from the beginning.
As the first vassal king to rise up, Qin King Sima Jian did not know that while he was fighting, the vassal kings separated from all over the country were holding back their ultimate moves. They either did not work hard, and they had to do their best to do their best. Although they were not on the battlefield, they sharpened their knives towards the direction of the battlefield.
Li Te was regarded as the powerful general, so Li Te instantly changed from a refugee who left his hometown to a member of my Great Jin. Li Te did not know that he would have the fate of separatist in the future. Now he was favored by Sima Ying, and he was quite grateful and decided to serve Sima Ying in front of him and let his younger sister have a good life with Sima Ying.
At Hangu Pass, the siege for many days made the soldiers on both sides exhausted physically and mentally. However, for the Luoyang Imperial Army who defended one side, their fatigue was less due to the protection of the city. And today they also heard good news that reinforcements arrived.
General Zhang Lin of the Guard and General Zhang Hong of the Envoy led reinforcements to Hangu Pass, met Sima Shi, the King of Dongping who was in charge of the three armies, and told Sima Lun what he meant. Sima Lun now needed a big victory to boost his reputation.
As for why this is the case, the two of them don’t know. Although Zhang Lin has a good relationship with Prince Zhao and Prince Zhao has a bad relationship with Sun Xiu, the problem is that Sima Lun, trusting Sun Xiu is obviously more important than trusting his son. This has caused the prince’s dissatisfaction, and he deliberately cheated Sun Xiu once when Sima Ji steals the princess.
But Sun Xiu's trust in Sima Lun was as always, and it did not change a little because of that incident. Even Zhang Lin didn't know that Sun Xiu had already persuaded Sima Lun now. Once Sima Jian defeated Sima Jian, he would usurp the throne directly with the power of victory. In Sun Xiu's opinion, as long as Sima Jian was defeated, other vassal kings would surrender and dare not do anything else. Sima Lun... believed it.
"I don't know how many reinforcements the two generals brought." Sima Shi, the king of Dongping, asked, looking at the two generals who were coming in dust.
Although the failure of the stealing camp lost a little of his troops, after all, with Hangu Pass as support, Sima Shi was humiliated by Sima Jian, and he put on a turtle shell with peace of mind. If we say that the loss was Sima Jian's Guanzhong army was even more serious. 50,000 imperial guards were enough to defend Hangu Pass, so it was not urgent for reinforcements, so of course it would be better if it came.
"There are only ten thousand, but they are all elites of the imperial guards." Zhang Hong, the general of the Conquering Army who had not spoken, spoke, "And they did not come to Hangu Pass, they had already turned northwest to Pingjin Pass."
"My general and I mean, please ask King Dongping to fight. General Wei and I lead our troops out of Pingjin Pass, rush to Hedong County, attack the left wing of the Guanzhong army, defeat Sima Jian, and resolve the danger of the Qin King this time."
"There are 100,000 troops in Guanzhong, and the Yang family of Hongnong County helped to recruit troops. Was it a little hurry?" King Sima Shi, the king of Dongping, shook his head instinctively. Since Sima Jian taught him to be a human being once, Sima Shi knew that he could correct his mistakes. Now he just wants to defend Hangu Pass well and seek stability. Why bother to fight hard?
"This is what the prime minister means, and it has been decided. With the elite of the imperial guards, as long as the surprise attack is launched, the Guanzhong army will not be a problem." General Zhang Lin frowned slightly, not happy with Sima Shi's cowardly appearance. Do you think it's too unprogressive to guard a Hangu Pass for 50,000 imperial guards? There are eight similar passes. If Sima Shi wants to defend them, wouldn't it take 600,000 troops?
Besides, the reinforcements have already gone to Pingjin Pass, can we still call them back to guard Hangu Pass together? The two of them tried to persuade them and even reported this matter to Sima Lun, which finally made the royal general reluctantly agree.
However, Sima Shi, the King of Dongping, resolutely gave up the right to lead the troops and commander, saying that he would pick up the generals at Hangu Pass and would not give Sima Jian an opportunity to take advantage of it. He recommended that General Sun Fu, the army, lead the troops to fight.
General Zhang Lin nodded in agreement. This was exactly what he wanted. He was afraid that the royal general would do his best to lead the imperial guards to a dead end.
"Goodbye to the last general!" Zhang Hong, the general of the conquering army bowed and left the military tent and took his personal soldiers to chase the reinforcements that had already rushed to Pingjin Pass.
General Zhang Lin rewarded the three armies in the name of Sima Lun, saying that he had brought 30,000 reinforcements and would fight Sima Jian to a decisive battle soon. He would surely wipe out the decline of the past few days. The battle defeated Sima Jian's Guanzhong army. This powerful statement immediately caused a great boost of morale, and the soldiers of the imperial guards were ready to fight.
They didn't know that Zhang Lin brought only 10,000 reinforcements, and they were not in Hangu Pass. No one even noticed this, because the scale of Hangu Pass, even the defense of 50,000 imperial guards seemed bloated. From the perspective of ordinary soldiers, how could they see the difference between a 50,000 army and an 80,000 army? They could only see a lot of people, and as for how many of them were, I don't know.
As for what the soldiers thought, no one cared about it. If Simalun wanted a big victory to become his purpose, he would urge his generals to fight. These generals would send troops after Simalun's care. It was that simple.
Chapter completed!