Chapter 144 The Sima Family Deserves to Die
The pursuit lasted for more than half an hour. General Li certainly did not kill all of Duan's cavalry with his halberds, because the enemies would flee in all directions, but he always chased the largest group of people until all the enemies in front of him died in his hands.

The reputation of a brave general is built on his corpse.

Apart from the heavily armored cavalry, the armor of the remaining Duan cavalry was similar, and Li Hao couldn't tell which one was their general.

He decided to recruit some subordinates who had seen officials and generals from all over the country, and tell him which enemies were more important before the battle.

On the way back to Jingxing City, the general also gathered a dozen war horses that were drinking water by the river.

Most of the war horses of the Duan clan of the Xianbei were raised in Liaoxi County, where they were fed a mixture of grass and grain, and had much greater endurance than the post horses of Bingzhou.

Li Hao is quite familiar with the area of ​​western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.

That area has alluvial plains brought by the Liaohe River and the Small Liaohe River, as well as large horse farms, iron mines, and salt ponds. It is a second-tier choice for starting a business and competing for the world.

But the hateful old thief Sima Yi not only killed people to build Jingguan when he pacified Liaodong, but also relocated tens of thousands of Han people to Youzhou, Jizhou and other places, greatly weakening the power of the Han people in Liaodong.

The resulting legacy issues, which lasted for thousands of years, can be said to have profoundly changed the situation in Northeast Asia and even the Central Plains dynasty.

The descendants of the Sima family were even more hateful. Instead of fighting in the already corrupt Bingzhou, Yongzhou, Liangzhou and other places, they led elite troops from all over the place to engage in internal fighting. Their skills were not high, and they allowed the Five Barbarians to wreak havoc in China, which eventually led to the situation of the Chinese people moving south.

Everyone in the Sima family deserves to die!

Fortunately, Li Hao came to this era, and the Simas no longer have to wait for Liu Yu decades later. They can go to the underworld one after another soon.

"Reporting to the general, we have collected more than 470 ownerless war horses and more than 700 sets of heavy and light armor."

In front of the west gate of Jingxing, General Li Dai gave a rough report on the search of the battlefield.

He was a fast runner and had been responsible for transmitting military intelligence to the rebels. After they gradually had post horses, they were also in charge of the reconnaissance cavalry.

Most of the rebel soldiers could not ride horses, so the responsibility of gathering the war horses could only be done by the reconnaissance cavalry.

"Where are the Youzhou soldiers? They came as an army, but only one flag appeared. Where are the other two and the captain?" General Li asked.

The military system of the Jin Dynasty was passed down from Cao Wei, which in turn learned from the Eastern Han Dynasty. The basic military systems of these three dynasties were largely similar.

The chief officer of a group of 700 to 800 to 10,000 to 2,000 soldiers usually holds the rank of colonel. "Chuan" means flag. The Jin army in various places is accustomed to distinguishing 500 infantry and cavalry with a flag.

Previously, there was only one flag bearer on horseback at the foot of Jingxing City, which meant that there were still two full quotas of Youzhou soldiers who had not shown up.

"In the military camp five miles outside the city, they have been packing up and withdrawing their troops after the defeat, and the defeated soldiers also fled there." Li Dai replied.

"The five centurions I brought with me will lead the troops to fight. Change the horses for me."

The general immediately ordered a pursuit.

It would be fine if they couldn't catch up with the Xianbei cavalry who all had horses, as they all had to travel on foot. This group of Youzhou soldiers would be killed or their bodies would be spared today.

Otherwise, if word gets out, people will think that he, the great general of the universe, is soft-hearted!

The rebel soldiers who were targeted were quite excited. The most capable enemies were dealt with by the generals, and they only had to deal with ordinary soldiers in light armor. These soldiers usually could not form a formation and were only concerned with escaping to save their lives.

There is a reward for chopping off a head, and those who charge first can also get rewards such as silk, silver and money. Who can resist this?

So five hundred high-spirited swordsmen and archers followed the general to attack the Youzhou soldiers who were about to withdraw.

One mile away from the Youzhou military camp, General Li took the lead and took several reconnaissance cavalry to investigate the situation.

The Youzhou soldiers were all in a panic. Some civilians had already pulled carts to move the tents and other belongings away. From a distance, they looked like several long, twisting snakes.

Unfortunately, they were not as agile as the Changshan Snake, and they did not even have the courage to come forward to engage in battle. General Li could only chase the Jin army's flags and the mounted infantry commanders, lieutenants, and war supervisors.

The rest of the soldiers scattered in all directions, greatly increasing the difficulty of capturing the rebels.

"General, I am a member of the Lu clan of Fanyang State. My name is Rong, and my courtesy name is Renfeng. I am willing to serve you as my master."

Seeing that his horse was running out of energy and unable to escape the pursuit of the rebel leader, Lu Rong led a few mounted military officers to surrender to the general not far behind him.

The rebel army lacked all kinds of talents, and General Li also held the view of using those who defected in the middle of the battle as long as they could be used.

"That's right. I am ashamed to be called Lu. I have fought for half a lifetime, but I cannot kill as many Hu people as the general in half a day."

Lu Rong flattered General Li a little, but he was actually just a poor man from the Lu family.

"Appoint five hundred lords and give them five centurions. The rest of the military officers will be demoted to a lower rank and given the same amount of land as the other rebel armies. Follow me and gather the soldiers from all over the place."

The most important step in a rebellion is to gather the troops.

The old brothers who followed General Li from the early days were the key to stabilizing the territory.

The previous soldiers of the rebel army had basically not been trained in border troops. Although there were a few people like Li Ju who came from foreign troops of the Jin court, they were alone and could not support a complete five-tenths-hundred-man system.

The military experience of Lu Rong and his group is exactly what the rebel army needs at the moment.

"Thank you, General!"

The surrendering soldiers bowed.

He originally planned to find a way to make a living, but unexpectedly he got a high official position and dozens of acres of land. Lu Rong's heart was pounding.

……

Yecheng, Governor's Office.

King Sima Ying of Chengdu, King Sima Yi of Changshan and other royal princes of the Western Jin Dynasty and their staff gathered in the lobby of the Governor's Mansion to discuss the current situation.

"On the third night of the first lunar month, at three o'clock in the morning, Prince Zhao and Sun Xiu led their troops to break through the palace gates. Zhao Can and the remaining members of the Jia family were all beaten to death."

"Why did I hear that Zhao Can was killed by a ring-headed sword?"

"No matter how he died, the King of Zhao appointed himself as the commander-in-chief of all military forces at home and abroad, envoy with imperial seals, and prime minister, and also opened a government. We brothers have to find a way to protect ourselves."

Last year, the crown prince was deposed, and the ambitious people in and outside Luoyang city were divided into three major forces. The first was the Queen Jia Nanfeng, the second was the crown prince's old party, and the third was the greedy and reckless Prince of Zhao Sima Lun and his favored flatterer Sun Xiu.

The three parties made a fuss about the dethronement of the crown prince, and finally in March tricked Jia Mi and others from the Jia family into killing the dethroned crown prince. Then on April 3, General Sima Lun took the lead in launching an attack, captured the palace, and imprisoned Empress Jia.

The King of Zhao then dismissed officials inside and outside the court in the name of killing the remnants of the Jia family, and conferred 8,100 marquisates on the civil and military officials who followed him in the rebellion.

This incident caused panic among the Sima kings. The 23-year-old Sima Yi fled to his half-brother Sima Ying's Yecheng in early March to observe the situation in Luoyang.

Prince of Zhao Sima Lun is the ninth son of Sima Yi. He is now over 60 years old and is the great uncle of Sima Yan's sons such as Sima Yi and Sima Ying.

"My Zhongshan Kingdom has a lot of problems. I didn't send troops to deal with the previous rebellion of Zhu Li. Liu Bao of Youzhou sent troops to suppress it, but I didn't expect that we lost thousands of troops and let the rebels become more powerful."

Sima Yi was demoted to King of Changshan in the first year of Yongping. At that time, the title of King of Changshan had been vacant for several years, and the court also appointed a prefect of Changshan County. The situation of the coexistence of the county and the kingdom had lasted for nine years.

When Sima Yi received the emergency document from Jingxing, he specially sent someone to Jixian County, Youzhou to urge Liu Bao, the commander-in-chief of Youzhou and Bing, to let the Youzhou army wipe out this group of rebels. He did not expect that Liu Bao, a veteran general, would send such unreliable people.

"The rebels are very bold. They dared to attack Leping County, Jinchang County, Changshan County, and Zhao State one after another. But you don't have to worry, brother. The Changshan soldiers are stationed around Jingxing County to force the rebels to go south to attack the counties of Zhao State. Let's see how Sima Lun will deal with it."

The Jizhou troops were basically under the command of Sima Ying, the General of Pingbei, and there were a total of 50,000 combat troops that could be mobilized near Yecheng.

But Sima Ying did not want to send his own troops to suppress the rebellion. He just wanted to divert the trouble south and let the Li clan attack the counties of Zhao.

Even if the King of Zhao could not be forced to leave Luoyang and go to his fiefdom to quell the rebellion, the rebels' tactics could at least force Sima Lun to send his elite troops north.

The situation is tense now, and it would be good news if we could weaken King Zhao's military strength.

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