Four hundred years of agitation: Pu Hong changed his surname to Zhi Shi and died unexpectedly, and Murong Jun moved the capital to Jicheng

This article is the 131st in a long series, Four Hundred Years of Turmoil

As mentioned earlier, Shi Zun, at the instigation of Shi Min, deposed Pu Hong from his post as governor, and Pu Hong, in a fit of rage, threatened to submit to the Eastern Jin Dynasty and return to his garrison.

After returning to Fangtou, the displaced people of Qinzhou and Yongzhou jointly elected Pu Hong as their leader, with a large number of more than 100,000 troops. Pu Hong's son Pu Jian was in Yecheng, and at this time he also broke through the checkpoint and defected to Fangtou.

Pu Hong's momentum grew, causing Shi Jian to panic and want to drive him away, with Pu Hong as the governor of Guanzhong, the general of the Western Expedition, the pastor of Yongzhou, and the leader of the Qin Prefecture Assassination History.

Pu Hong hesitated, whether to stay in Fangtou or go to Guanzhong? He summoned his officials for consultation. Cheng Pu, the master bookkeeper, suggested that for the time being, he should make peace with Later Zhao and rule in the same way that the princes and states were divided.

Pu Hong suddenly became angry, "Am I not worthy to be the Son of Heaven?" Why do we say that the nations are divided into lands and ruled? "Pull Cheng Pu out and kill him." Cough, it turned out that I wanted to be the emperor, I said it earlier.

In February of the sixth year of Yonghe (350 AD), Shi Min declared himself emperor, and also implied the intention of submitting to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which greatly encouraged the Eastern Jin court and moved the idea of recovering the Central Plains.

On February 18, the Eastern Jin Dynasty court made Yangzhou Assassin Shi Yinhao the general of the Chinese army, False Festival, Dudu Yang, Yu, Xu, Yan, and Qingwu Prefectures; Pu Hong as the King of Qi, Envoy Jie, Zhengbei General, DuDu Hebei Military, Jizhou Assassin History, Guangchuan Jungong; Pu Jian as False Festival, Right General, Jian Hebei To conquer the forward military forces, and Xiangguo Duke.

For the canonization of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Pu Hong did not oppose it, so he accepted it, anyway, he did not suffer any losses, and he could also recruit more displaced people under the banner of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

With a name and a force, Pu Hong began to march towards Kansai in an attempt to plot Yongzhou and Qinzhou.

Unexpectedly, Yao Yizhong also took a fancy to Kansai and sent his son Yao Xiang to lead a crowd of 50,000 to intercept Pu Hong. Pu Hong took the initiative to meet the battle, defeated Yao Xiang, and won more than 30,000 ranks.

After this great defeat, Yao Yizhong did not dare to fight with Pu Hong for territory anymore, and secretly communicated with Shi Yuan.

The victory over Yao Yizhong greatly increased Pu Hong's confidence, and he called himself the Governor of Dadu, the Great General, the Great Dan Yu, and the King of Three Qin, and changed his surname to the Zhi clan, and a Fengyun family of the Southern and Northern Dynasties was born.

However, just as Gong Hong was preparing to do a big job, an accident brought his road to hegemony to an abrupt end.

In March, Ma Qiu advised Gong Hong: "Shi Min and Shi Qi are facing each other, and the chaos in the Central Plains is difficult to put down. You might as well attack Guanzhong first, wait until the foundation of the great cause is solid, and then go east to compete for the world, and then who dares to be your enemy. Gong Hong thought deeply and relied heavily on him.

Who would have thought that Ma Qiu would have a different heart. Shortly thereafter, he took advantage of the banquet to get Gong Hong to drink poisoned wine, hoping to swallow up Gong Hong's soldiers.

Jian Jian rose up in anger and killed Ma Qiu. Before dying, Gong Hong said to Jian Jian, "The reason why I didn't enter the customs before was because I thought That Zhongzhou could be stable, but now I am unfortunately killed by Ma Qiu." Pingding Zhongzhou is not something your brother can do, and after I die, you will have to enter the customs quickly! "Words come to an end.

From this sentence, Gong Hong did not seem to be optimistic that his sons could dominate in the Central Plains.

Therefore, Jian Jian took the place of his father to lead the army, removed the titles of Governor of Dadu, Great General, and King of Three Qin, changed his title to Eastern Jin Dynasty Official, and sent his uncle Gong An to Jiankang to report the funeral and request the will of the imperial court.

In the chaos of the Central Plains, not only was Former Yan and Eastern Jin eager to try, but even Yang Chu of Qiuchi took advantage of the fire and robbery and also captured the western city of Later Zhao.

Murong Jun had been watching coldly, waiting for Hou Zhao to completely lose control and strike another thunderous blow. In order to increase his momentum, he also sent emissaries to Liangzhou to invite Zhang Chonghua to join him in the army.

However, Zhang Chonghua had just been elected by his subordinate officials as the pastor of the three prefectures of Cheng Xiang, Liang Wang, Yong, Qin, and Liang, and was satisfied with one acre and three points of land in Liangzhou, and did not have a strong willingness to send troops.

Maybe he's waiting for a better opportunity. After all, such a thing as a warlord melee, those who come out too early have become cannon fodder.

In February of that year, Murong Jun, who had been watching for more than half a year, finally arrived, and he sent Murong Ba to lead 20,000 troops out of the Tuhe River from the east, Mu Yu from the west out of the cockroaches, and himself from the middle road out of Lulongsai.

Murong Jun took Murong Ke and Xian Yuliang as the forwards, and Mu Yufeng opened the way at Fengshan, leaving Murong Ye to guard Longcheng, and Neishi Liu Bin as the grand si nong, and staying in the rear with Emperor Fuzhen of the Canon.

Murong Ba took the lead in arriving at Sanxing, and after The Zhao general Deng Hengda, in a panic, burned the warehouse where the grain and weapons were stored, abandoned Anle City and left, together with The Assassin Shi Wu of Youzhou to defend Jicheng.

Sun Yong, the governor of TuheNan, quickly drove into Anle City to extinguish the embers and confiscate grain and cloth. After Murong Ba received the grain for the weapons of Anle and Beiping, he met murong Jun at Linqu.

In March, the Former Yan army arrived at Wufeng, and Wang Wu left his general Wang Tuo to lead thousands of people to guard Jicheng, and he and Deng Heng went to defend Lukou.

On the fifth day of March, Murong Jun captured Jicheng and killed Wang Tuo. Murong Jun also wanted to bury all of Wang Tuo's more than a thousand soldiers alive, and Murong Ba persuaded: "Later Zhao was tyrannical, and the Great King you only raised a rebellion, in order to save the people from the depths of the water, and then appease and occupy the entire Central Plains." Now that jicheng has just been captured, it is necessary to kill the soldiers, and I am afraid that it will not be a precursor for the wang division. ”

Murong Jun heeded Murong Ba's advice, released the soldiers, and set the capital at Jicheng, and the people of the Central Plains came to surrender one after another.

Subsequently, the Former Yan army arrived at Fanyang, and Fanyang Taishou Li Chan wanted to hold on to Shi's behalf, but his soldiers refused to obey the orders, so he had to lead the eight counties under his jurisdiction to surrender, and Murong Jun continued to use him as a taishou.

On March 24, Murong Jun asked the central Governor Jicheng to stay behind and personally lead his troops to Lukou to attack Deng Heng.

When the troops marched to Qingliang, Deng Heng's general Lu Bo had already led thousands of people to sneak into Former Yan's camp by night, and when half of the soldiers infiltrated the camp, they wanted to capture murong Ba, the forward governor first.

Suddenly, Murong Ba, undaunted, rose up to fight back, personally killing more than a dozen people, and Lu Bo was unable to continue the attack, so the Former Yan army was able to put it on strict alert.

Murong Jun's heart palpitated, and he said to Mu Yougen, "The enemy's vanguard troops are very elite, and they should take shelter for a while." Mu Yougen said, "I am outnumbered and outnumbered, and there is a huge disparity in strength, so they sneak in at night, hoping to win in case they win." The king just sleeps peacefully, and I'll go and destroy them for you!" ”

After Mu Yougen set out, Murong Jun was still uneasy and could not sleep peacefully, and Neishi Lihong followed him out of the camp and watched the battle on a high mound. Only to see Mu Yougen personally lead hundreds of people who dared to die set out from the Middle Tooth Army Tent and go straight ahead to attack Lu Bozhao.

Encouraged by Mu Yougen, Li Hong also went to help in the battle, and Lu Bo had already lost and retreated. The soldiers chased and fought for more than forty miles, Lu Bo had only been able to escape, and the other retinue soldiers were killed.

After a great victory, when everyone tried to continue south, Murong Jun suddenly led his troops back to Jicheng. Perhaps, in his plan, moving the capital to Jicheng was the first priority, and as for Shi Min, it seemed that he could wait a little longer.

From the perspective of the time, Murong Jun may have been a bit conservative, but in hindsight, he was right, because Shi Min was too tough.