The seemingly united alliance of the princes of Dong soon ended in a farce with the battle between the two giants Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers around Yuzhou after the death of Shi Kongling of Yuzhou.
Yuzhou was very chaotic, and Yanzhou was not peaceful, and Yanzhou stabbed Liu Dai to kill Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao. Not only that, but there was also an anti-Dong prince who died in the infighting, he was born in Yanzhou, the Prince of Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang.
In the historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Wang Kuang's role is not much, and how he died is not explained, but in Zhao Cong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is mentioned that he was defeated by Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu and killed by Zhang Ji when he fled.
If wang Kuang in history really had such a way of dying, he would not have died of infighting.
When referring to Wang Kuang, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms says that he "fought righteously and neglected wealth, and squandered money like earth.". This is exactly in line with the records of Pei Songzhi's notes in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and Emperor Wu of the Records of the Heroes:
(Wang) Kuang Zi Gong Jie, Taishan people. Light wealth is good, to be chivalrous.
Wang Kuang served as the governor of the general He Jin. After Emperor Shao of Han ascended the throne, He Jin deliberately killed the eunuch Zhang Rang and sent Wang Kuang back to his hometown of Taishan County, Yanzhou, to recruit troops.
Wang Kuang recruited five hundred crossbowmen and prepared to go to the capital Luoyang to respond to the boss's action, but learned a bad news: Zhang Rang preemptively moved, and the boss was gone!
At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Yuan Shao stood up: The boss is gone, and I am gone, follow me, avenge the boss!
Wang Kuang seemed to have found an organization, and at that time, he followed Yuan Shao into the palace and killed him.
If the biggest winner of this coup is Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao has meat to eat, Wang Kuang should be able to get some broth. But when the foreign relatives and eunuchs really died together, the biggest winner became the foreign military leader Dong Zhuo, and Wang Kuang could only go home and idle.
Dong Zhuo tried to win over the scholars, and some ministers recommended some talents to him to guard the place, and he also adopted them. However, let's take a look at who these talents are:
Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao, Jizhou Mu Hanfu, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling, Chen Liu TaiShou Zhang Miao, Nanyang Taishou Zhang Zhi...
In addition to settling down, Dong Zhuo also promoted some people in the central government, such as Cao Cao, a lieutenant of the Xiao Riding School.
Soon, the party Dong Zhuo himself will realize the problem.
Wang Kuang was also conscripted as the Taishou of Hanoi during this time period, and it is difficult to say that this appointment was not part of the disciples fooling Dong Zhuo.
When the princes raised an army and pushed Yuan Shao as their ally, Wang Kuang's Hanoi County became the location of Yuan Shao's troops.
Fighting a war requires money, Wang Kuang needs money, I don't know if at this time he will regret that he has scattered too much money before. The town guard side needs prestige, and Wang Kuang needs li wei.
To achieve both of these goals at the same time, it is actually very simple.
Wang Kuang sent people to inspect crimes in China to see whoever broke the law and wanted the other party to pay money to atone for his crimes; if he did not pay the money, he would not only be unlucky himself, but would also harm his family.
There was a Chang person who was arrested for hitting the doorman and accusing him, and everyone in the Chang family was in danger.
Fortunately, Chang's nephew Chang Lin was witty and went to Wang Kuang's compatriot Hu Mubiao to intercede:
Wangfu Jun, with high talent in literature and martial arts, linwu county. The mountains and rivers in the county, the earth is vast and the people are yin, and there are many talents, but they choose to use. Now the lord is young chong, the thief is the tiger, the Huaxia is shocked, and the hero is striving to use the autumn also. If you want to curse the thieves of the world, help the royal family, the wise look at the wind, if you should sound, and overcome chaos and peace, he will not succeed. Without grace, let others lose their lives, and their demise is coming, why should they have the imperial court and revere the name of meritorious service? Junqi Hidden!
So Hu Mubiao wrote a letter to blame Wang Kuang: How can you lose people's hearts in order to ask for money!
In this way, Wang Kuang let Chang go. However, were other families without talents like Chang Lin all miserable by Wang Kuang?
After talking about Wang Kuang's internal affairs, let's talk about Wang Kuang's military.
First of all, let's talk about the development of the whole situation in the war against Dong.
Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong defeated the combined forces of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Bao Xin, Zhang Mi, Liu Dai, and Kong Ling in the Battle of Xingyang, and the already disparate coalition of Dong Began to loosen. For example, Han Fu, who was in charge of logistics, because he was not so assured of Yuan Shao, began to work on the supply of grain, and soon the princely army stationed in the sour jujube was returning to each family because of the lack of food.
Among them, Cao Cao, disappointed in the princes of sour dates, re-recruited some horses and came to Hanoi to join Yuan Shao, while the other prince, Qiao Mao, was simply killed by his ally Liu Dai.
It seems that the situation has become favorable to Dong Zhuo, but no matter how big the gap between the princes is, they are still nominally Dong Zhuo's enemies. Dong Zhuo did not blindly seek military suppression, and also considered the use of peaceful means. Therefore, in the name of the imperial court, he sent Han Rong the Great Hong, Yin Xiu of Shaofu, Hu Mu ban of Jin Wu, Wu Xun, the general master wu xun, and Wang Huan, a lieutenant of the Yue Cavalry School, as emissaries to take the edict to Hanoi County to talk to Lord Yuan Meng, hoping that Yuan Shao would not look at his Dong Zhuo face, but also look at the face of the imperial court behind Dong Zhuo.
However, Yuan Shao was very desperate in his work, and did not look at the face of the imperial court at all, and actually killed all four except the famous Han Rong!
Kill it, he doesn't do it himself, he has to find another pot man to do it.
And those who act as the back pot man are Wang Kuang and Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu was responsible for killing Yin Xiu, and Wang Kuang was responsible for killing Hu Muban, Wu Xun, and Wang Xun.
Although Yuan Shu was Yuan Shao's younger brother, he was obviously less obedient than Wang Kuang. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wang Kuang was the first to propose the need for an ally, and then Cao Cao led the princes to elect Yuan Shao.
How obedient is Wang Kuang? Of the three heads assigned to him, Hu Muban was his brother-in-law. However, in order to satisfy Yuan Shao, Wang Kuang chose to let his brother-in-law die.
Hu Muban wrote a letter to Wang Kuang in prison, saying roughly: Where is the reason for the princes to raise troops to attack the capital? Is Dong Zhuo and I in the same party? What is the reason why you hate Dong Zhuo again and turn your anger on me? I am so ashamed to be victimized by my madman!"
After scolding Wang Kuang as a madman, Hu Muban wrote:
My son is your nephew, and I have to be taken care of when I die.
When Wang Kuang received the letter, he was very touched, hugged his two nephews who were about to lose his father, and cried, and then killed Hu Muban.
Since it was ineffective to talk about peace, Dong Zhuo could only use his fist to reason with Yuan Shao.
The defeat of Wang Kuang described in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is actually roughly in line with history, but the history books do not record Niu Fu and Zhang Ji participating in the war. After turning his back on Yuan Shao, Wang Kuang's face was already large enough for Dong Zhuo to personally move.
Dong Zhuo sent troops to Yuan Shao, of course, to kill Hanoi, which was yuan shao's troops, and Wang Kuang, as the Taishou of Hanoi, of course, must be prepared to deal with Dong Zhuo's attack. He sent Han Hao to lead an army to garrison Mengjin and the "Taishan soldiers" to garrison Heyangjin. Hearing that Dong Zhuo was going to send troops to cross the river from Pingyin County in the east of Mengjin County, he also arranged for an army to defend.
However, Dong Zhuo was a general who had experienced hundreds of battles, and in his early years, when he was surrounded by the Liangzhou rebels too deeply, he once pretended to build a to catch fish and fill the hunger, but in fact he sneaked into the water and slipped away, and finally the whole army returned. This time, Dong Zhuo also repeated the same trick, playing a hand to attack the west, just when Wang Kuang was stubbornly defending Pingyin to resist Dong Zhuo's suspected soldiers, Dong Zhuo's elite troops had already killed Xiao Pingjin across the river to his rear.
Under the attack on both sides, Wang Kuang, who had no military experience at all, was "greatly destroyed by Dong Zhuo, and the dead were slightly exhausted".
Thanks to the fact that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not history, otherwise Wang Kuang would have been defeated by Lü Bu once.
Cai Yong, who was good friends with him when he was young, had become a red man in front of Dong Zhuo at this time, and knowing that Dong Zhuo had defeated Wang Kuang, he congratulated him:
On the eighteenth day of this month, the subject used the Xiangguo soldiers to rebel against the thief Wang Kuang of Hanoi, and tun Chen destroyed it, and was awarded the first rank.
Completely disregarding his old feelings, he directly scolded Wang Kuang as a traitor.
Although Wang Kuang could not fight, he did not lose his old ability to be good at pulling Zhuang Ding under He Jin, "walking back to Mount Tai and collecting thousands of brave people."
But at this time, Wang Kuang began to seriously think about life: Why have I mixed so badly in the past two years? Am I... Fooled by Yuan Shao from the beginning?
And if you think about it, it's possible.
He Jin and Zhang Rang are still in-laws, how much hatred can they have? It was Yuan Shao who arched the fire from the middle, wanting to let the foreign relatives and eunuchs die together, and he sat as a representative of the scholars to reap the benefits, but the plan deviated, so that Dong Zhuo picked the peach.
However, if responsibility is to be held accountable, the great general He Jin was killed by eunuchs, and the che general He Miao was killed by Wu Kuang, a subordinate of He Jin, and Dong Zhuo's younger brother Dong Min, the younger brother of FengcheDu. The eunuchs were killed by Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao had already made himself politically correct when he moved against the eunuchs.
Similarly, on the issue of dealing with Dong Zhuo's emissaries, Yuan Shao also made a move to kill people with a knife and pluck himself clean.
Wang Kuang probably understood that he had been being used as a gun by Yuan Shao, and even yuan shao becoming his eldest brother was the result of Yuan Shao's own manipulation.
I regard you as a big brother, for you, I have robbed money, my reputation has been damaged, my brother-in-law has been killed, and the army has been destroyed... But what have you given me in return?
After awakening, Wang Kuang decided to find another way out within the Allied forces, and he found Zhang Mi.
However, the beginning of awakening is precisely the beginning of destruction.
The pot that Yuan Shao threw at him began to work, and the people of Hu Muban came to him for revenge, and brought Cao Cao, who was also a helper of the Tun bing in Hanoi. No matter how strong Wang Kuang's army was, it could not stop The blossoming of Cao Cao's center.
This matter is definitely not as simple as Cao Cao's enthusiasm to avenge the Hu mu people, such a big thing happened under Yuan Shao's eyes, can Yuan Shao sit idly by? Obviously, Cao Cao, who was being covered by Yuan Shao, was sure that Yuan Shao would not pursue this.
Wang Kuang's search for another ally was a betrayal of Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao sent his younger brother Cao Cao to clean up the portal, which was natural and reasonable. Although on the surface, the enemy is still fighting with the allies and is equivalent to reducing one friend and creating an enemy for oneself, if the trouble can be solved quickly and its armament is merged, it is a big profit. The alliance relationship may not be reliable, and you should ask whether the ally is willing to take military action, and after the merger, you don't need to ask.
Moreover, in this way, the people who killed Wang Kuang in the history books were Cao Cao and the Humu family, and Yuan Shao's hands were still clean.
Among the princes of Dong, the Princes of Yanzhou, represented by Liu Dai, Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao, Bao Xin, Yuan Yi, and Cao Cao, accounted for a large proportion. Now Qiao Mao and Wang Kuang are dead. Although Wang Kuang's Hanoi County was not under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou, his death as a Yanzhou native laid the groundwork for the gap between Zhang Mi and Yuan Shao, and the political structure of Yanzhou was naturally reshuffled.
In order to wrestle with Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao naturally needed a person who could rule Yanzhou to become his helper. Soon, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban will distribute box lunches to the other two Yanzhou gangsters, and the one who survives to the end will become the ultimate winner in the Yanzhou struggle.