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Li Han was very depressed at this time.
According to his original plan, he first sold Sima Qi, and then let Sima Yong and Sima Ying fight Sima Yan in the name of avenging Sima Qi, and after success, he deposed Sima Zheng and pushed Sima Ying to the throne, so that Sima Ying could also gain the power to dominate, and his enemy Emperor Fushang could also follow suit, which was really a good thing.
However, Sima Qi killed Sima Yan instead and shared the power of the imperial court with Sima Ying, and Emperor Fushang also jumped to Sima Qi's side first, and instead of being liquidated, he was more trusted, and his calculations were all disappointed.
To make matters worse, Emperor Fushang's brother Huang Fuzhong was the assassin of QinZhou, and Qinzhou was closely connected to Guanzhong, and since Sima Hao took office, his control over Qinzhou had always been no better than that of Emperor Fuzhong, a land snake from a stable clan, which made Li Han feel cold and fluttering behind his back.
So Li Han found Sima Hao: "Your Highness, Emperor Fushang has become Sima Qi's person, and his brother Emperor Fuzhong will not listen to us after all, so it is better to get rid of this scourge as soon as possible." ”
"Do you have any good ideas?"
"Your Highness can recommend Emperor Fuzhong to go to the central government, and he will inevitably pass through Chang'an on the way, and take the opportunity to take him down."
"In your opinion."
[1] May 303
However, Li Han's plan was known to Emperor Fuzhong. Emperor Fuzhong immediately gave Sima Qi a table, indicating that Sima Qi was about to rebel under Li Han's deception, and asked the imperial court to allow him to take revenge on Li Han, on the one hand, although he was looking for Li Han to settle accounts, on the other hand, Emperor Fuzhong believed that the affairs of Qin Prefecture still had to be decided by the land snake, and since Sima Hao became the governor of Guanzhong, whether it was Yongzhou or Qin Prefecture under his jurisdiction, the local Hao clan did not look up to Sima Hao, the governor of Guanzhong. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity to attack Li Han, Emperor Fuzhong decided to put some pressure on Sima Hao as well.
Sima Qi was also calculated by Li Han, and naturally did not have a good impression of Li Han, but he had just finished dealing with Sima Yan, and if he opened a film with Sima Han for the sake of the emperor's heavy affairs, it would not be worth it. Therefore, while ordering the emperor to strike the army, Sima Qi recruited Li Han to take up the post of Yin of Henan, and as long as Li Han served in the central government, he was under the supervision of Sima Qi, and it was also a matter of one sentence to kill him.
Sima Hao was also very aware of Sima Qi's hostility toward Li Han, but he had a deeper idea: if Li Han went to the central government, it would be best for him to have the emperor in charge of the emperor's duties, and Sima Hao could slowly strengthen his management in Guanzhong, and at the same time, Li Han in the central government could serve as Sima Qi's eyeliner and look for an opportunity to kill Sima Qi; and if Sima Qi executed Li Han, this would give Sima Han a pretext to fight against Sima Qi, and as long as Sima Qi was solved, Sima Yu could still get into the highest power.
Li Han did not expect to become a pawn of Sima Yong, and he promised to serve as The Yin of Henan and immediately went to Luoyang to take up his post. However, Emperor Fuzhong did not heed Sima Qi's edict and continued to march to Chang'an. Of course, Sima Hao would not let Emperor Fu stomp his nose on his face, and he launched Taishou from all over Qin Prefecture to engage in a confrontation with Emperor Fu for more than a year.
A few days later, Sima Hao instructed Li Han to find Feng Sun and Zhongshu Ling bian To jointly murder Sima Qi, only to be discovered by Emperor Fushang, who told Sima Qi that Li Han, Feng Sun, and Bian Chu were immediately executed and became pawns sacrificed in Sima Qi's ambitions.
Upon hearing the news of Li Han's execution, Sima Hao was very excited: the opportunity he had been seeking was finally coming.
However, the strength of Sima Qi's Guanzhong army was originally inferior to That of Sima Qi's central army, not to mention that Sima Qi still controlled the imperial court and the emperor, and Sima Qi on the Guanzhong side was heavily restrained by the emperor and could not mobilize all his strength, so Sima Yong sent an emissary to Sima Ying, requesting that Sima Ying, who had more than 200,000 troops in Jizhou, and himself jointly send troops to fight Against Sima Qi.
Sima Ying's mind was also very active, although Lu Zhi suggested that he accumulate fame in Yecheng, Taoguang and obscure, learn the story of Duke Huan of Qi, either to be the leader of the king of the clan to support the royal family, or to slowly consolidate his position as heir, no matter which road he chose, he would inevitably be able to achieve a career. However, the young man could not hold back his loneliness, and always felt that he should have become the emperor's brother-in-law before, and as a result, he was inserted by Sima Qi, resulting in the failure of the plan. Sima Ying dreamed that he could do something to show himself, and heard that Zhang Chang was rebelling in Jingzhou, so he asked the imperial court to let him lead an army against Zhang Chang. Halfway through, Sima Ying received an invitation from Sima Ying to go on a crusade against Sima Qi. After the fact, let Sima Ying become the emperor, which made Sima Ying more moved.
Lu Zhi and other aides believed that the reputation that had been accumulated for a long time before, every step was very steady, and now it was not a good idea to go to Sima Hao as a gunman.
However, Sima Ying, who had been blinded by the throne, could no longer listen to the correct advice, and he was immediately ready to send troops.
In 303, Sima Ying and Sima Ying jointly took aim at Sima Qi, Emperor Fushang, and Yang Xuanzhi, the ruler of the state.
Emperor Fushang was directly responsible for Li Hanzhi's death, and it was not surprising that he was on the list, while Yang Xuanzhi appeared to be somewhat wronged. Although he was relatively close to Sima Qi, he did not participate in the struggle of the emperors, and the reason why he was targeted was because Sima Ying was worried that his daughter Yang Xianrong would give birth to a prince, so that his position as the emperor's brother-in-law would be unstable.
The two sides officially tore their faces, and Sima Qi, with the posts of lieutenant and governor of various Chinese and foreign militaries, led the central army to go out to war with the two emperors.
On the western front, Sima Ying's general Zhang Fang marched from Hangu Pass to Luoyang with the main force of Guanzhong's army of 70,000 men, while Sima Yingze's more than 200,000 Jizhou troops set out from Yicheng on the northern front and stationed themselves at Chaoge, staring at Luoyang.
Sima Qi sent Emperor Fushang to lead more than 10,000 people to attack Zhang Fang, but was soon defeated by Zhang Fang, and Guanzhong's army successfully reached Luoyang. Not long after, Zhang Yi entered Luoyang City smoothly.
Is it that smooth? Zhang Fang doubted himself a little.
Indeed, it was so smooth, because Sima Qi's troops were insufficient, and he could only deal with one road first, so he left Luoyang with the main force of the central army and Sima Zheng, and went to deal with Sima Ying first, and handed over Sima Ying's side to Emperor Fushang, planning to let Emperor Fuzhong be able to restrain Sima Qi in the west for a while.
However, Emperor Fushang was too much of a waste, and he collapsed at the touch, and Zhang Fang, who had put his mind at ease, began to carry out massacres and plunders in Luoyang, which fell into a sea of fire, and the abbot Yang Xuanzhi was also scared to death.
The reason why Sima Qi planned to deal with Sima Ying first was because he had learned that it was not Sima Ying himself who led the main force on the northern front, but Lu Ji, a famous soldier in Jiangdong. He sensed keenly that this was a great opportunity.
In Sima Ying's view, there were more than 200,000 people on his side, and the pressure could crush Sima Qi to death. Lu Ji was quite famous as a celebrity, and his grandfather and father were both famous generals of the State of Wu. Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the sons of rats will punch holes, and it is expected that Lu Ji's skills will not be worse.
But Sima Ying miscalculated. Lu Ji is naturally a celebrity, but there are some problems with celebrities, and there is no shortage of lu ji.
[2] Land machine image
Lu Ji was born in the Lu family, the first of the four surnames in Wu County, and has shown his genius qualifications since childhood. Growing up in such a family, under the stars and the moon, naturally brought him the pride of a noble prince. But when he was twenty years old, the state of Wu was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, and Lu Ji witnessed the death of his three brothers and became a prisoner himself. Although he was later released to his hometown and lived in seclusion at home, the war was still a big blow to his life.
A year later, in order to appease the Wu people, the Jin Dynasty issued an edict to recruit talented Wu people to become officials, and Lu Ji was among the conscripts. In order to maintain the family's door, Lu Ji chose to go out. When he first arrived in Luoyang, Lu Ji was proud to be from the largest clan in Jiangdong, and he was very proud, but in the eyes of the northern shi clan, Lu Ji was just a prisoner of their past.
A captive, what is the spirit? The land plane that entered Luo was ridiculed by many northern warriors.
[3] TaiKang Zhiying
Wang Ji, the attendant, had tripped Lu Ji at a banquet, and he pointed to a piece of sheep cheese and asked Lu Ji, "Do you Wuzhong have such good things?" ”
This was obviously a mockery of Lu Ji, a southern barbarian who had little knowledge, and Lu Ji did not give in to weakness, and hardened it: "Our lettuce soup in Wuzhong, the unsaled salt tempeh, are all good things." The guests applauded, but Wang Ji's expression was a little embarrassed.
Later, Lu Zhi also found an opportunity to provoke a land plane at the banquet.
In front of everyone, he openly asked, "Who is Lu Xun and Lu Kang related to you, who is closer and who is farther away?" ”
Calling the name of the other party's father and grandfather in public was no different from scolding other people's parents at that time, so Lu Ji also directly hardened it: "Just like Lu Yu, Lu Jue and your relationship." Lu Yu and Lu Jue were Lu Zhi's father and grandfather, and Lu Zhi was bored and silently left the table.
Lu Yun felt that his brother was too rigid, and afterwards found Lu Ji and asked, "Lu Zhi may not really know, why should he be so real?" ”
"Our father and grandfather are famous, but who doesn't know?" Lu Ji showed no weakness.
Lu Zhishu and Lu Ji formed a bond.
Although Lu Yun was relatively easy-going with Lu Ji, he was not a good stubble, and he had offended Sima Ying's favored eunuch Meng Jiu.
Meng Jiu once asked Sima Ying to let his father serve as the county commander of Handan County, and Lu Yun advised Sima Ying: "Handan is an important town in Jizhou, how can we let the father of a eunuch be the county commander?" ”
Meng Jiu hated it and tickled his teeth.
[4] Lu Ji Anthology and Lu Yun Anthology
As a celebrity, he usually fights harmlessly, but as a commander, he leads a bunch of generals from the northern family and has many contradictions with him, and this commander obviously cannot be deserved. In particular, Lu Ji's two acquaintances, Wang Pu and Qian Xiu, happened to be Lu Ji's subordinate generals.
Lu Ji, Wang Pu and Qian Xiu originally belonged to one of the Twenty-Four Friends of Jingu, but the so-called "Twenty-Four Friends of Jingu" was originally a small group formed around Jia Mi, and most of these members did not have life and death friends, did not cooperate sincerely, occasionally drank wine, composed poems, and really did not talk about friendship.
What's more, Wang Pu was Wang Hao's grandson, and Qian Xiu was the grandson of the wei general Zhao Zhao, and the other general Shi Chao was Shi Bao's grandson. On the identity of the ancestors, none of them are much worse than Lu Ji, so why can a barbarian from the south be the leader of Lao Tzu?
And Meng Jiu's younger brother Meng Chao was also one of the subordinates of Lu Ji's ruler, so these people were dissatisfied with Lu Ji and looked for opportunities to see Lu Ji's jokes.
Lu Ji was also well aware of this, and his friend Sun Hui also advised him to resign from sima Ying's position as commander. Therefore, Lu Ji found a reason, saying that both his grandfather and father had become generals, and Heavenly Reason had repaid them, and it was not suitable for him to be a general in his generation.
"What is this saying? When you win the battle, you will be made a county duke and ranked third! Sima Ying was somewhat dissatisfied.
"This..." Lu Ji had the heart to resign, but looking at Sima Ying's attitude, he pushed it off again, I am afraid that Sima Ying would feel that he was a wall grass and bet at both ends, so Lu Ji made a request.
"In the past, duke Huan of Qi achieved hegemony because he trusted Guan Zhong; King Hui of Yan was jealous of Leyi, so he failed, and I went this time, success or failure, in your absence."
Lu Ji knew very well that once he went out on the expedition, Sima Ying would definitely have someone around him who would make a small report of himself, and he must give Sima Ying a wake-up call.
But Sima Ying waved his hand, indicating that this matter was so fixed, as for Lu Ji's extra-string voice, I don't know if Sima Ying understood it or not.
Sure enough, as soon as Lu Ji left, Lu Zhi, who was beside him, immediately said to Sima Ying: "Lu Ji is comparing himself to Zhongle Yi, comparing you to The Emperor." Since ancient times, appointing generals, I have never heard of the bullying monarch of courtiers to this point can still win the battle! ”
Of course, Lu Ji did not have this meaning, but Lu Zhi misinterpreted it, and Sima Ying had to be suspicious.
However, it is his own intention to let Lu Ji be the manager, or let him play first.
Not long after the departure, Meng Chao indulged his subordinates to rob the people, and these soldiers were just hit by Lu Ji, who arrested several main criminals and prepared for interrogation.
Without saying a word, Meng Chao went straight to the camp of Lu Ji with more than a hundred of his relatives, snatched these main criminals back, and then turned back to the landing plane and scolded: "Nan Manzi, can you be the commander- ”
Sun Zheng, who was also a Wu person, was advising Lu Ji to behead Meng Chao and show him to the public, but Lu Ji had never brought soldiers, did not know the importance of establishing the authority of the commander-in-chief, and only held the attitude of calming things down.
Meng Chao had no intention of restraining himself, but instead spread rumors everywhere, saying that Lu Ji wanted to oppose the water, which made the people of the army panic, and this battle was obviously impossible to fight.
However, Zhang Fang quickly entered Luoyang, forcing Sima Qi to abandon the important ferry bridge north of Luoyang to shrink the defensive line.
Lu Ji took the opportunity to cross the Yellow River, occupy the river bridge, and sent Qian Xiu to pursue Sima Qi, but Qian Xiu was soon defeated by Sima Qi, and Lu Ji had to stop attacking, which allowed Sima Qi to return to his senses and deal with Zhang Fang first.
[5] October 303
Because of the support of the emperor and the extremely strong combat effectiveness of the central army led by Sima Qi, Zhang Fang's soldiers had just fought, and when they saw the emperor's car appear, they were defeated and retreated, and Zhang Fang was forced to withdraw from Luoyang. But Zhang Fang was very capable, he had to stop the rout, built a fortress west of Luoyang, and formed a stalemate with Sima Qi, which Sima Qi did not want to see.
Sima Qi took the opportunity to send The Lieutenant Wang Yan to propose peace talks to Sima Ying, proposing that Shaanxi be the boundary, that he rule west of Shaanxi and that Sima Ying rule east of Shaanxi. However, Sima Ying proposed that he should exchange the head of the emperor for a subordinate, and this was unacceptable to Sima Qi: If he killed the emperor in this way, who would dare to give him a subordinate in the future? Negotiations broke down, and Sima Ying continued to send Ma Xian to support the land planes on the front line.
It's time to fight a fight.
While Zhang Fang was still gasping for breath in the west, Sima Qi opened his position at the Jianchun Gate east of Luoyang City and engaged in a major battle with Lu Ji.
Sima Qi's men tied Wang Hu to the horses with long halberds and launched a surprise attack on Ma Xian's position.
The assault of the heavily armored horses was a devastating blow to the less organized army, and Maham's position soon collapsed, and Ma ham himself was beheaded. This triggered a total rout of the Land Plane army, which tried to reorganize the formation, but none of the generals listened to his command and fought each other, making the war a one-sided massacre. Sima Ying's soldiers suffered countless casualties in this battle, and even Luo Shui did not flow for it. Sixteen generals, including Meng Chao, were beheaded and hung in the city of Luoyang for public display.
Meng Chao's death made Meng Jiu very angry, originally Meng Chao did not have to fight with Meng Jiu to fight a small report on the land machine to reverse the water, this big defeat, let Meng Jiu think more that Meng Chao's death was lu ji's doing.
"Your Highness, Lu Ji has long been anti-water!" The great defeat of Jianchunmen was deliberately defeated by Lu Ji and Sima Qi, who colluded and deliberately defeated! ”
"Yes, yes, the minister testifies!" He had long been dissatisfied with Lu Ji and planned to curry favor with Meng Jiu and others.
Sima Ying was furious and asked Qianxiu to arrest Lu Ji.
"Your Highness and move slowly!" Wang Zhang, who joined the army, could not bear to see Lu Ji die unjustly, and suggested to Sima Ying: "In this battle, the strength and weakness are so clear, even the most skilled people know who loses and who wins, let alone Lu Ji." It's just that Lu Ji is a Wu person, and His Highness uses him too much, so the northern generals are not convinced of him. ”
But Sima Ying could no longer listen to the advice, and all he wanted was Lu Ji's death to cover up his incompetence.
Leading the soldiers rushed into the camp of the land plane.
"Obey the commandment, and correct the Law on the spot!"
Lu Ji already knew that there would be such a day: I wanted to quit this errand at the beginning, but I was not allowed to do so, and there is today's ending, isn't it providence?
He took off his battle uniform, changed into civilian clothes to see Qianxiu, and wrote the final suicide note to Sima Ying.
Lu Ji remembered the days when he and Gu Rong, Zhang Han and others gathered in Huating, remembered Gu Rong's advice to himself, and then laughed bitterly: "I really regret not listening to you!" ”
"I can't hear the cranes in my hometown of Huating anymore." This is Lu Ji's last words, at this time, he must be very envious of zhang Han, a friend who resigned from the official and returned to his hometown to eat lettuce and sea bass, right?
However, it was all too late.
[6] Huating Crane
Lu Yun was also implicated in the arrest. Sima Ying's aide Jiang Tong really couldn't bear to look at it, and advised Sima Ying: "Lu Ji lost the battle, and if he killed, he would be killed, but to say that he was rebellious, everyone knew that this was impossible, you should first carefully investigate, if there is really a rebellion, it is not too late to kill Lu Yun." ”
On the side, Zeiko also pleaded bitterly, and his head was bleeding. Sima Ying was a little moved, and he had the heart to release Lu Yun.
However, Lu Zhi was bent on putting Lu Ji's brother to death, so he reminded Sima Ying: "When Sima Lun, the King of Zhao, killed Zhao Jun, the protector of The Middle, but pardoned his son Zhao Jun, zhao Jun defected to you to counterattack Sima Lun. ”
On the side, Meng Jiu simply went directly to torture Lu Ji's subordinate Sun Zheng and forced him to give perjury to Lu Ji. Sun Zheng resolutely refused to comply, so the torturers beat his ankle bones to the ground. The jailer couldn't bear it and asked Sun Zheng, "Who in the world doesn't know erlu's wrongdoing, but do you really not care for yourself?" ”
Sun Zheng looked up at the sky and sighed, "The Lu Ji brothers are unusual people, and they have the grace of knowing me, since I can't save them from death, how can I bear to falsely accuse them?" ”
Meng Jiu saw that Sun Zheng could not give in, so he forged a confession. Sima Ying originally had some regrets about killing Lu Ji, but when he saw this forged testimony, he was very happy and immediately praised Meng Jiu: "If it weren't for a loyal subject like you, I wouldn't recognize a traitor like Erlu!" ”
As a result, Lu Yun and his younger brother Lu Tan, along with their three clans, plus Sun Zheng, who refused to give perjury, were all killed, and the Lu clan of Wu County once again suffered a great blow.
In this chaotic world, if you can no longer hear the cranes in your hometown, is it not only Lu Ji alone?
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