Chapter 104: Peace Talks Shanyue
After learning that King Liang had no intention of entering the court peacefully, Prime Minister Cao Cheng could only order soldiers and horses from all over the country to gather in the east of Tongguan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
For Guan Yu, who was pressed to the front line of Xingyang in the east, Cao Cao sent the Xiahou brothers, Zhang Liao and others to gather Yanzhou troops to defend the revolving gate pass.
The eight passes of Luoyang, which were supervised by the first emperor, not only blocked the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army, but now they are also coming to block the iron hooves of the Liangguo cavalry.
It's just that before the people of Liangzhou led the troops to knock on the pass, the Wuguan had already been broken!
The 1,000 letters from Yuzhou Mu Ma Bozhan seemed to be a strategy to attack the heart, which made the defenders of Wuguan have little heart to fight...... We don't have to pay for our own lives to stop others from going to mourn, and it is very likely that we will throw our lives here and let our descendants go to mourn.
What's more, the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou put up a formation, but after waiting for only half an hour, the stone-throwing cannon dragged the burning oil tank and smashed it into the city pass, and the ballista nailed the long spear to the city.
No one climbed the city to fight, and the burning oil canister smashed on the city wall and plunged the entire Wuguan into flames.
The defenders could not defend the city at all, and could only watch the gates burn in flames.
This flame is like the anger of the people of Liangzhou.
When the fire burned out, the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou rushed through the ruined city, and in the face of the fleeing imperial soldiers and horses, they passed through Wuguan and walked all the way to Tongguan in Yin, Henan.
The most correct thing Ma Dai did was not to march directly to Luoyang, but to present a letter to Luoyang in a very low-key manner, and led the troops to the west.
It was precisely because of this practice that his soldiers and horses were not killed by the imperial army in Yinkingi, Henan.
However, in fact, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court did not have a chance to return to attack Ma Dai's soldiers and horses.
Because Han Sui has arrived.
The Qiang soldiers arrived first, and since Jincheng, they have been whipping all the way, driving herds of cattle and sheep to Sanfu.
Before the summer began, the entire Jingzhaoyin was turned into a pasture by the 100,000 Qiang mutiny, and the smell of cows, sheep and horses was everywhere.
It smells bad, but who will pay attention to it at this time?
Although the war returned, the people of Sanfu had long been accustomed to such a tense atmosphere, or there was no tense atmosphere at all.
For more than ten years after Sanfu was assigned to the territory of Liangguo, the people of Sanfu had never suffered from real war, and the strong strength of Liangguo made them adjacent to the battlefield, and they were always afraid of war, but they were never really trampled by the enemy's soldiers and horses.
They believe in the King of Liang, and they believe in the Kingdom of Liang.
The army of Liangguo will not damage their wealth and fields, from Liangzhou to Tongguan, this land has always been the best place to recruit soldiers in Liangguo, and at present, thirty percent of the armored soldiers of Liangguo come from here, how can they destroy their homes?
All this is also due to the ruthless military force of King Liang.
Liang Guo has recruited too many soldiers, and some people are alive and living better; Some people died and were buried in Zhangshan.
Zhangshan is the tomb of the loyal soul of Liangguo, and the tomb of Zhangshan is also the history of blood and tears of the people of Liangguo.
God knows how much the people of Liangzhou have paid for food and clothing, and the sturdy and healthy young men joined the army when the recruitment list was erected in the city, and the fresh lives turned into a handful of ashes and buried them in Zhangshan Mound.
The barren grass in the hometown of Shanglin Yuan in the first Han Dynasty fed herds of cattle and sheep, and Han Sui set up a position twenty miles west of Tongguan, and made it clear that he wanted to have a decisive battle with the imperial court here.
But in fact, behind the scenes, Han Sui also sent Li Hu's men who grew up in the Yizhou Mountains to the east from Huashan, and at the same time used the village of Sanfu Weishui to transport troops to the north and invade Hedong County.
On the other hand, at the foot of Huashan Mountain, Liu Baddu's craftsman battalion seized the time to make stones, and each of these shells used for catapult had clear regulations, and stones of different sizes formed various models, which would be used in various situations on the battlefield.
And Ma Yue was in the rear, commanding a large number of men and horses who were slowly and leisurely advancing.
The so-called soldiers, noble and fast, it is said that the Qiang army under Han Sui, everyone has horses, and the tribe is used as a unit to move towards the established location, and the efficiency is naturally neat and fast than the Han army forming a large formation to advance.
But the same number of Qiang soldiers will never be able to defeat the same number of Han troops.
The Eastern Han Dynasty was at an intersection, and the previous Han Dynasty pursued the old style of the Warring States Period, where all men were soldiers, and they only needed to be urgently recruited in wartime, and when the war was over, they would be disarmed and returned to the field. People still live and work in peace and contentment, of course, this excludes the Jianzhang Battalion of the Imperial Capital, which was later the Yulin Army.
In those days, the number of professional soldiers was quite small.
In the later Eastern Han Dynasty, it pursued a policy of elite soldiers, and it was difficult for the imperial court to gather more than 200,000 soldiers and horses in a short time, and even when Ban Chao was stationed in the Western Regions, he only had more than 1,000 people under his hands, so he had to rely on these more than 1,000 people to fight with the countries of the Western Regions.
Ban Chao's courage is exactly how it came.
The army of the Eastern Han Dynasty, even if it was only a conscription army, was far stronger than the Western Han Dynasty and stronger than the Qiang soldiers...... Chen Tang once had clouds, one Han top five hu!
But in fact, this Han person tops five Hu people does not mean that the Han people are so strong, but really powerful.
Better technology, sharp iron knives, sharp iron arrows, and even strong iron armor, the world's famous generals with a higher degree of soldier organization and coordination, with a hundred people to fight the effect of five hundred Hu warriors, this is of course an affirmation!
And the fierceness of the Qiang soldiers under Han Sui lies in the fact that he is a Han general who convinces all the Qiang people, he is proficient in the Han tactics, and equips the Qiang soldiers with the weapons and armor of the Liang army, and their combat effectiveness has of course increased geometrically!
In the final analysis, the Han family's tactics pay attention to the fact that there are more enemies in a large range and more enemies in a small area. The so-called military formation is just a means to form such a combat effect.
In the southern battlefield, Dong Zhongying did just that.
Dong Zhuo and Yizhou Yan Yan, two gray-haired veterans, have been leading an army of 80,000 to march to Jingzhou in the east for a long time.
Liu Bei did not hesitate at all after receiving an urgent request for help from the imperial court, handed over a large area of land in Jingzhou, and supervised the army all the way north, following Ma Dai's soldiers and horses to the Yin territory of Henan. The great rivers and mountains of Jingzhou have entered the competition between Liangguo and Jiangdong in this way.
The generals of the Jiangdong people in the land of Jingyang on the western front are all young generals.
Sun Quan and Lu Su are in power, and their Zhou Yu, Lu Xun and others are all unknown generals in this era, but Dong Zhuo does not dare to underestimate them.
In recent years, Jiangdong has spread battlefields all over the country, although these people are unknown, but they are by no means mediocre people who do nothing.
Dong Zhuo did not march directly to Xiangyang in Jingzhou, because Liu Bei, the pastor of Jingzhou, still had a group of men and horses in Xiangyang, not to mention that their main task was not to capture the city, the city was the same, all he needed was to have a grain route that could transport baggage.
The significance of the grain road lies in the length and safety, and it is definitely not in whether it is prosperous or not.
A very prosperous state is not a good thing for the grain road.
Dong Zhuo drove the soldiers and horses into Wuling County.
Wuling County is a good place, the seven cities in the territory are enough to serve as the front line of food and grass for soldiers and horses, there is Dongting in the north, and Changsha in the south, which can meet Dong Zhuo's deployment of the front line to occupy Jingzhou.
However, to Dong Zhuo's surprise, the first battle after he entered Wuling was not with the Jiangdong people.
The strong garrison of the soldiers and horses of the Liang State occupied the territory of the Shanyue barbarians, and the Shanyue people who defended their homeland launched a ferocious attack on the Liang army between the forests and rivers...... This is also the reason why Liu Bei took most of the soldiers and horses in Jingzhou for no reason.
The Shanyue people who were driven by the Sun clan fled all the way to the boundary of Jingzhou, and unlike the fierce Jiangdong army, who did not hesitate to get rid of them, Liu Yuanjun, who was kind and kind to the elderly, carved out a large area of land for the Shanyue people to live in, and even sent people to teach them how to plant rice seedlings.
Righteousness!
Liu Bei is benevolent and righteous, and this kind of benevolence is by no means false benevolence, but it is not stupid benevolence and stupidity.
The enemy of your enemy is your friend. The people of Jiangdong hate Shanyue, and Shanyue also hates the people of Jiangdong. This is the good friend that Liu Bei needs the most, all the forces that can help them fight Jiangdong are his best friends.
It's just that now his good friend has taken the lead in doing it to the people of Liangzhou.
"In the dense forest, we can't fight the Shanyue people, they are familiar with every grass and tree here." Dong Zhuo has already set up a position, this is his forte, no matter which direction he attacks the enemy, he will make the enemy suffer blows from three directions at the same time, and no matter which direction the enemy attacks from, he will be strangled by three times the army of Liangguo...... But there is a premise for this.
On the plains!
This is not a plain, and the enemy has no military formation, and the cunning Shanyue people will attack from any place they can think of, and the poisoned arrows will not survive when they are shot on the bodies of the Liangguo soldiers, and even the arrows in the tall horses will not be able to run with weak legs.
This is pointless consumption.
"Choose the warriors, go and negotiate with them, and tell them that if they help His Royal Highness King Liang to attack the Jiangdong people, when the war is over, they will get their own land, and not live in Han territory as they do now." Dong Zhuo paused, but the old man's voice carried a hint of determination, "Just like the Qiang people in Liangzhou, fighting for His Highness, regardless of Qiang Han!" ”
Like Ma Yue, Li Wei has the common blood of the Han and Qiang people, and when he heard this, he frowned and said, "My lord, where can they compare with the Qiang people?" Tattooed and broken hair is simply a bunch of brutes! ”
"In So-and-so's eyes, they're no different from us!" Dong Zhuo turned his head, with a little unhappiness on his face, and said in a deep voice: "The only difference is that our ancestors were born in the Central Plains back then, and they grew up here. ”
Li Wei was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly, and said to his nephew: "Go, take your personal guards and talk to them." ”
Dong Zhuo bowed his head slightly, looking at the Liangguo army that was in a rare flat position between the mountains and forests, and suddenly wanted to laugh at himself.
Ten years ago, he vowed not to talk to Shanyue people, but now?
It seems that many things are different after that Longdu forced the palace.
It doesn't matter how things are done.
What matters is how it turns out.