Chapter Ninety-Four: Offensive and Defensive Changes
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This is the only good thing for Ma Yue in recent days.
Those men who rode horses with him when they were young and galloped down the great rivers and mountains were willing to put on armor for him again when they were dying, which may be the meaning of men for him.
The battle report from the south came back, and Cheng Yi rebelled, leading more than 10,000 men and horses in his headquarters to fight back on the battlefield.
Ma Chao was trapped in the battle and could not return, and with injuries he beheaded Zhang Lu's second son Zhang Guang and Jizi Zhang Mengde, broke the enemy formation, defeated the main force of the Hanzhong rebels in Wudu County, and captured the new Zhang Tianshi, but let Zhang Lu's third son Zhang Yong escape westward and converge with the Hanzhong rebels on the left side.
Chased and killed all the way, countless Hanzhong people died on the road, and only more than 10,000 people finally escaped the battlefield.
An army of 40,000 descended, and those who died.
Cheng Yi also led his soldiers and horses to the west, seeing that he planned to stand with the Hanzhong army and continue to march towards Longdu.
After that, Ma Chao changed his strategy and did not march to Wudu Dao again, but only sent a letter to his father Ma Teng, informing him to lock the Xixian intersection, and then led the army to the east...... His goal was the garrison camp in Hanzhong, the Hechi battalion with more than 20,000 horses.
After the soldiers and horses, Liu Zhang of Yizhou also ceremoniously reinforced the suzerain, and the 30,000 Dongzhou troops under the command of Zhang Ren, the commander of Huang Quan, were on their way to the north.
There is no need to worry about the battlefield on the southern front.
Ma Yue stood in the courtyard of the Liang Palace, and the rockeries and flowing water around him failed to bring him any activity, but instead taught his face to be more gloomy.
I don't know when he really felt old.
When he was young, he was active on the battlefield, and that really gave him a feeling of 'alive'.
Sending Liang Hu and Hua's father and son away also brought Ma Yue a serious illness, after which he often felt powerless, but reality did not allow him to be powerless.
Although Xu Chu had already led reinforcements to advance towards Yuzhou, it was still a little slower after all, and the little son of the Cao family who dared to call out to the second young master of Ma would suffer enough in Yuzhou.
Ma Yue always thought that the next battle with the imperial court would still be held in Tongguan, and then the intelligence of the Splitting Wood Courtyard brought him another possibility.
There was a strange movement of troops and horses in the imperial court, and there was a concealed large-scale movement of troops and horses from the crossing of the Yellow River to Hedong County...... The imperial court wanted to sneak attack and annex the state.
Intelligence is important, but intelligence in the vast territory of this era is often a little unsatisfactory...... Immediately following the war report from the Pichai Yuan was the battle report sent by the state and Sanfu.
Zuo Fengling Water Village was attacked, the warship was destroyed, Yu Ban led the army to cross Tongguan and attack the north bank of Weishui, and the troops approached the Jin City. In the direction of Bingzhou, Zhang Liao led the army to cross Hukou Mountain from Hedong, entered the border of Bingzhou, and captured Dingyang with lightning speed.
At the same time, Ma Zong's reinforcements also rushed to the city of Tongguan, and what greeted him was the imperial soldiers and horses led by Xiahou Dun to set up an impenetrable military formation outside Tongguan.
The lock is not closed.
There was no good way to do this, and in the face of a heavy army formation, he could not hastily lead the army to fight.
Ma Yue frowned in the Liang Palace, Cao Cao didn't move, he hasn't moved yet, what the hell is he waiting for?
They're like two players, whoever reveals their hole cards first loses the opportunity.
But Ma Yue is not in a hurry about this, no matter how you look at the cards in his hand, the longer the time drags on, the more favorable the situation will be for him. He has Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, and Merge Prefecture...... These states have firmly locked Si Li in the center, as long as the soldiers and horses of the Liang State will clear the rebels in various places, Luoyang will be the turtle in the urn, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life will attack together, and the imperial court will not be able to defend it no matter what.
Even if all the eight levels are sealed, his men and horses can break all the eight levels.
But what did the court use to stop his iron horsemen?
It's just that now it seems that Brother Meng De is very calm.
Ma Yue didn't know that Cao Cao had even thought of the nickname he gave him, and he didn't know what he would laugh at if he really knew.
According to the battle report sent back by Guan Yu, Youzhou Liu He has been surrounded by Guan Yu's army, and what is even more interesting is that Gongsun Du, who is above the top, seems to recognize the situation at this time, and actually sent a letter to Ma Yue.
He was a vassal and hoped that King Liang would guarantee his position in Liaodong.
Ma Yue readily agreed to this and only gave him a mission...... Continue to fight abroad, climb over the Gaima Mountain, and fight the single big ridge...... It is Changbai Mountain, and then to the east and south is the place of Goguryeo and Korea.
He was not satisfied with the form of a vassal country, and even the twenty-seven countries of the Western Regions, this expedition to Guishan was also to take away their most elite warriors and prepare for the future transformation of the country into a county.
It is a very important question whether the defeated land can be held in the future, which is why he did not continue to fight westward, even if he can use the national strength of the entire Han homeland in the future, he will not declare war on Guishan in the west.
Because of inability, the land that has been beaten down cannot be defended, and that is a joke.
The prosperity of the Western Regions is the circulation route of merchants, not the prosperity of agricultural civilization, he will not station too many standing troops in the Western Regions, but he wants to turn that land into domestic soil.
Just like the vast land conquered by Lu Bu, the general of the expedition to the north, they all knew very well that the vast majority of those lands could not be defended, maybe in the name of Liang for ten or twenty years, but one day they would be snatched away...... It was not easy to build a city on the steppe, unless he was willing to move the population of the Central Plains north, and then build a new Great Wall further north.
But that's too much money to eat.
The significance of the Northern Expedition was to drive the foreigners farther away, so that they could migrate westward to bring calamity to the lands of other countries...... This is the only one Ma Yue can think of to avoid it in the future
Yang Feng in the direction of Bingzhou led the army to meet Zhang Liao, and fought seven or eight battles, but he always lost more and won less, but after all, Zhang Liao was blocked in the east of Bingzhou.
Such a record is enough, because winter is coming.
Liangzhou is gradually getting cold, and winter in the Central Plains will not come too late.
After the heavy snow in Bingzhou, Zhang Liao would no longer be able to continue the march, and if the imperial soldiers and horses did not retreat at that time, then there would be no need to retreat.
Yang Feng's territory is the richest Hetao region in Bingzhou and even in the whole Liang country, even if there is only one Xianping County, but a lot of cotton is grown, and his subordinates are also the only army with all-cotton clothes and iron armor.
In winter, this army will be invincible!
Ma Yue had been waiting, he was waiting for an opportunity, the right time, to defeat all the enemies in one fell swoop.
Until the time comes, he must not act rashly.
Because he was fighting against the two most powerful princes in the world besides him at the same time, Cao Cao of the imperial court and Sun Jian of Jiangdong.
Cheng Yi's rebellion finally failed to set off any waves in Liangzhou, with the complete defeat of the Hanzhong army, the Liangguo rebel army led by Cheng Yi was also defeated, Cheng Yi evaded Ma Chao's pursuit, and fled to Jincheng with a large group of men and horses, and was later killed by Han Sui's subordinates.
came back with Ma Chao, and the round head of Zhang's son was sealed in a wooden box and sent back to Longdu.
Flaunting this big victory, Ma Yue didn't say anything about Zhang Qiying, this girl's father, brother and relatives all died in this rebellion, and Lao Liang Wang did not have the tradition of killing women, so he built a temple outside Longdu City and put her under house arrest, which can be regarded as an explanation to Tianshi Dao.
Then, Ma Chao served as the Taishou of Hanzhong and led the army into Yizhou.
What's more interesting is coming, Huang Quan of Yizhou actually came and didn't want to go back, I don't know how he said that he moved Zhang Ren, the commander of the Dongzhou army, and actually relied on one mouth to recruit 30,000 Dongzhou troops for Ma Yue...... The joining of fresh blood suddenly dispelled the uneasiness of the city of Longdu after the Chengyi rebellion.
King Liang is still hopeful, and he didn't need to stretch out his hand, so he set up a camp outside Longdu City, and all the grain and grass supplies were according to the specifications that were one percent higher than the regular army of Liangguo, which was also regarded as giving face to this strong army of Yizhou that could fight well.
With the Dongzhou Army going north to aid Long and Yan Yan stationed in the White Emperor, Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang can be regarded as completely emptying himself, and now there is no one available around him, and he is no longer a good soldier.
In order to save the face of Huang Quan and Zhang Ren, Ma Yue still repaired a letter and sent it to Liu Zhang, commending him for his righteous dispatch of troops when he was killed in Longdu, and at the same time negotiating to temporarily use the Dongzhou Army as the guard of Longdu City during this chaotic time...... As for what is returned, that's not true.
In addition to the verbal reward, Ma Yue also gave Liu Zhang a little substantive help, such as a Chun Yuhou.
Chun is a county, this marquis is also a county marquis of course, but this is different from Yang Feng's Fengting, and it is also different from Guan Yu's Xiangping, the two marquis in front of him, whether they are county marquis or pavilion marquis, are serious Liangzhou marquis, they not only have a fiefdom of the population, just like Guan Yu's county marquis or even like the independent kingdom of Liangzhou, before leading the troops to go out, the military and government of Xiangping County are all out of his hands.
But Liu Zhang's Chunyu Hou Ke is different, Chunyu County is in Qingzhou!
Not to mention the remote feudal city, the population is still up to His Royal Highness King Liang.
In the blink of an eye, the sixteenth year of Jian'an is coming.
Just when the lights were shining all over Liangzhou, and the people were vying to celebrate another year without the impact of military disasters, a war report plunged the entire Liangwang Palace into a haze.
Xuzhou, Sun Jian personally led his troops and horses to the north along the way, crossed the White Horse Lake from Guangling, bypassed Xu Huang's main force and threatened the four cities of Liang in the south of Xuzhou, and at the same time, the little overlord Sun Ce led the fleet to land in Donghai County in Yuzhou Mountain, cut off the grain route of Xu Huang's main force in the south, and captured Yan County.
Winter is about to enter in a blink of an eye, although the winter in Xuzhou will be a little later than Liangzhou, but there is no doubt that it will freeze in a month at most, and it will be difficult for soldiers and horses to travel at that time, and there is no need for the Sun family to fight, and Xu Huang's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses will collapse in the blink of an eye.
What made Lao Liang's heart even more shocking was that the battle report sent back by Tan Ma She, who had forgotten his life and death, said that during the battle, the men and horses led by the enemy Zhou Tai broke out in an encounter with the army led by the prince Ma Qing in the field.
The son of the world was defeated and went down!