Chapter 257 Breakthrough 3
Wang Yan shook his head helplessly.
Sima Yue was furious and grabbed an exquisite teacup and smashed it hard on the ground. With a bang, he smashed it to pieces. The singular genius and maids present were so scared that they all knelt down and touched the ground with their foreheads. They were trembling and did not dare to see through. Looking at their embarrassing appearance, Sima Yue became even more angry and shouted: "Useless things, get out!"
The beautiful women were so scared that they rushed to escape, fearing that they would fall to the ground if they walked one step slower. This is not their worries. Who is Sima Yue? He is a cruel character who even the emperor dares to kill him! Such people, even the emperor, brothers, and uncles can kill him without hesitation. What are their slaves who are more destined to be killed in his eyes? He killed him casually without blinking his eyes. While the Grand Marshal has no plans to kill someone, run away quickly and hide away from him, otherwise his life may be lost!
Sima Yue cursed angrily: "Do you really think that this Taiwei dare not kill him!"
When talking about Beigong Chun, Sima Yue gritted his teeth with hatred.
Wang Yan naturally knew why he hated Beigong Chun so much. It was not that Beigong Chun did something unforgivable that made the powerful Taiwei want to kill him quickly, but that he refused Sima Yue's recruitment.
Sima Yan is the most powerful mine-burning master in the Western Jin Dynasty. He has been burying mines or on the road to mines throughout his life. Before his lifetime, the Western Jin Dynasty had already buryed:
1: The Hu people went south and the population of the main ethnic groups decreased significantly;
2: Ideological degeneration and party struggles are intensifying;
3: Class solidification;
4: The successor is mentally retarded and the demon queen is on the throne;
5: All the pillars of the court were demolished for exiling King Sima You of Qi;
6: The foreign relative Yang's interfere in politics and the ambitious Sima Liang took office;
7: If the country is not upright, the court cannot suppress the noble families;
Any of these seven thunders is enough to make the entire country foam in a mess, but the thunder expert Sima Yan said that the density of the minefield needs to be improved and he has to continue working hard. So before his death, he buried two of the deadliest thunders in the Western Jin Dynasty:
The first thunder was the great kings, and they sealed twenty-seven in one go. These princes all gave money to the territory, the army and weapons. The territory of each royal family king was like an independent small kingdom, and they almost used the tweeter to shout in the ears of the royal family kings, "You can rebel, you can rebel";
The second thunder was that the world was nothing, and the state and county soldiers were stopped. China during the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties was somewhat similar to the United States today. Each state and county had its own army and its own armory, which was equivalent to the National Guard of the United States today. When the war broke out, the prefectures and counties that were closest to the origin of the war immediately raised troops to resist and withstand the rebels. The central government sent elite troops to quickly come, collecting the prefectures and county soldiers along the way, forming an overwhelming army, and defeating the rebels or invading Hu people with an iron pestle pounding eggs. But Sima Yan might have lived too comfortably in the last few years, or he might have been worried that the large number of royal royals he had enfeoffed would become an obstacle when the rebellion of the royal royals, so he laid off all the prefectures and county soldiers, leaving only the central imperial guards deployed in Luoyang and Chang'an, a total of 125,000.
Yes, you read that right. The Western Jin Dynasty is so big, there are only 125,000 regular troops. This is the only army in the Luoyang court. Whenever this army is torn, the Western Jin Dynasty will be over.
As Sima Yan wished, in the cruel civil war, the 125,000 elite imperial guards were quickly exhausted. When Sima Yue won the final victory and became the person in charge of the highest power of the empire, the imperial guards included all the old, weak and remnants, leaving only 40,000 people. As for the generals who could fight, there were almost no one. What's even more terrifying is that when he was in power, most of the territory of Shanxi, which was only a stone's throw from Luoyang, fell into the hands of the Huns. Liu Yuan, under the banner of restoring the Han Dynasty, commanded the Hu army, who was like a wolf and a tiger, to kill him fiercely; and in the Central Plains, there were still a large number of forces that were dissatisfied with him, staring at him with a fierce look, ready to raise an army to rebel at any time!
It is not difficult to imagine how eager Sima Yue at this time could obtain a group of elite soldiers and a general who could conquer warlike.
Beigong Chun's appearance undoubtedly made his eyes lit up. When this fierce general rescued Luoyang, he only brought more than a thousand Liangzhou heavy infantry soldiers and dared to fight against Wang Mi's 70,000 rebels head-on, and killed the other side; when he rescued Luoyang, he also brought more than a thousand people to the position of the Huns' army, breaking several camps, killing Hu Yanhao, and letting general Hu Yanyi die in the chaos. Such a god of war and such elite soldiers are rare in ancient and modern times. Sima Yue couldn't wait to throw an olive branch to Beigong Chun, constantly suggesting that the other party would join his command, which would give him wealth and honor, and treat him very well. However, Beigong Chun didn't know what was wrong. No matter how generous Sima Yue gave him and how high the official position, he didn't have a good face to Sima Yue, and he said in one sentence: After the war is over, I want to go back to Liangzhou to report to Zhang Jun!
Sima Yue believed that Beigong Chun's so-called return to Liangzhou to report was just an excuse. This vulgar martial artist simply looked down on himself and refused to work for him! This phenomenon is actually quite common in the court. It was unrighteous that he stabbed the King of Changsha and made Sima Yi fail and was burned to death by Zhang Fang. It was unfaithful to poison Emperor Hui of Jin, and it was untrustworthy to kill Sima Ying. This kind of unfaithful, unrighteous, and untrustworthy slaughter was simply an animal in the eyes of the people. After he was in power, he had vigorously won over the ministers in the court and the high families of various families, hoping that they could use it for him, but many people were ashamed to accept his appointment, rewards, and gifts, and were unwilling to cooperate with him at all. It was reasonable that Beigong Chun, a powerful general who was simple in his mind and had a clear distinction between love and hate, was unwilling to join him.
But this is what Sima Yue can't stand the most. Now I'm below one person and above ten thousand people. I'm having a good time and a good time to win you over. Why do you ignore me? Who gives you the courage? What's more terrible is that the puppet he helped up with is also trying every means to win over Beigong Chun, and Beigong Chun's attitude towards Sima Chi is much more enthusiastic. Sima Yue is simply furious. You don't want to surrender to me, but you want to surrender to my mortal enemy? Okay, I
Let you taste my power! I immediately found an excuse to arrest Beigong Chun. In name, he ordered him to go to Mangshan to guard the imperial tomb, but in essence he was imprisoned. If Beigong Chun had not saved Luoyang, he would have made great contributions and had a great reputation in the army and the court. Killing him rashly would probably make Sima Yue's already smelly enough and even the remaining tens of thousands of imperial guards might have jumped back. I am afraid that Sima would raise the butcher knife sooner!
As a close political ally of Sima Yue, Wang Yan naturally knew how difficult Sima Yue was in now and how much he needed Beigong Chun, a brave and capable general who could fight, to charge for him. Similarly, he also knew how much Sima Yue hated Beigong Chun after being repeatedly swept his face by Beigong Chun. So he didn't say anything, just drank tea with a faint smile, allowing Sima Yue to swear words. Until Sima Yue finished venting, he said: "Beigong Chun is certainly ignorant, and deserves to die, but now the Beilu is in Xin'an, Mengjin, Yiyang, and Xinchengpan are not in charge, and may attack Luoyang at any time. He is just needed to stand up like him... Why not let him go for the time being, let him lead his troops to join forces with Beigong Jing and fight back the Beilu first?"
Sima Yue sneered: "Let him come out and ask him to lead troops? He is now arrogant because of his second contribution to saving Luoyang. If he is asked to make some contributions, wouldn't he take this Grand Marshal even more seriously?"
As soon as this said, Wang Yan knew that even if this old guy was sitting on the verge of Luoyang City, he would fight Beigong Chun to the end. He sighed secretly and stopped persuading him. When Sima Yue calmed down a little, he said: "Although that is the case, the Beiliu army is now close to you and may attack the city at any time. Beigong Jing finally won one victory after another. The army was excited, and it was a good time to launch a large-scale counterattack. If he did not send troops decisively to attack at this time, he would probably lose this great opportunity!"
Sima Yue thought for a while and said, "Let the money be taken away. Give him five thousand imperial guards and let him be smarter. If you can win, you will fight. If you can't win, you will return quickly. Don't lose this little soldier."
Wang Yan bowed and said, "The Grand Marshal is wise! Qian Duan is one of the most powerful generals among the imperial guards. With him taking action, he will definitely win a great victory!"
Sima Yue said weakly: "I hope."
At this time, the sky was already dark, and everything was dark and dull under the twilight. Sima Yue looked at the palace where Zhan Jian was flooded by darkness, endured the cold air that cut his face like a knife, and murmured: "This Luoyang City is really not going to be able to stay here... I really forced me to be so anxious that I took these 40,000 imperial guards back to the East China Sea to see what to do with these wastes!"
As the actual ruler of the Western Jin Dynasty at this time, the Taiwei of the current dynasty, who was less than ten thousand people, was shocking to release the abandoned capital and brought the imperial guards back to the fiefdom. Once it was spread, Luoyang would have to be in chaos. But Wang Yan was very calm, and even his hands holding the teacup did not shake. It was not that he was so brave. If he was really brave, he would not have been servile and attentive after being captured by Shi Le, and even advised Shi Le to be emperor. The reason why it was so determined was that it did not care about the city or even the life or death of this empire.
Not only him, most princes, ministers, Qingliu and even poor families, don't care about the life and death of the Western Jin Dynasty, and even hope that it will be done soon. In this era, loyalty is undoubtedly a rarer thing than the wild South China tigers. On the contrary, there are as many ambitious people as there are. I don't know how many people are secretly hoping that this country will be done soon, so that they can show their skills and make achievements! Take Wang Yan for example, with his reputation, status and the strong strength of the Wang family in the court, he was really done with Jin. He was called up in the name of fighting the thief and restoring the country, and responding to it, and then...
This country may not be able to be named King!
Because I don't care, I'm not afraid at all.
People are always afraid of losing something because they care about something. If they don’t care from the beginning, what else are they afraid of?
Chapter completed!