Chapter 1759: The Plan That Died Abruptly

Liu Che's extreme non-cooperation made Nurhachi angry and helpless, and he had no choice but to find another way and prepare to enter Youzhou under the guise of uniting Chen Guo.

Although Chen Baxian, the king of Chen, had taken refuge under the banner of the Northern Han Dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the country, each vassal state had military, political, diplomatic and other autonomy, and even the imperial court could not intervene.

For example: Cao Wei, Zhao Song, and Sun Wu all directly respect the Luoyang court as orthodox, but the Luoyang court cannot meddle in the internal affairs of the three countries.

Although King Chen was canonized by Liu Che himself, Chen Guo's diplomacy still had nothing to do with his Han Kingdom.

If Chen Ba really agreed to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and recruited the Manchu army into Youzhou, then Liu Che really couldn't stop it, after all, this was the internal affairs of another country.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was brewing a great plan, moved at a speed that was not unfast, and transferred the armies from all over the country to Liaodong County, which also greatly increased the pressure on Gongsun Xuanyuan in the gap between the Qing and Chen countries.

Since Gongsun Shu usurped the throne, Gongsun Xuanyuan, who was driven out of the Liao State, has been resisting Wanyan Agu outside the national border.

It is precisely because of Gongsun Xuanyuan on the front line, when Wang Mang and Gongsun Shu entered Qingbei, Chen Baxian, who was guarding the Liao State in the rear, did not have the threat of the Northern Han Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and had almost no worries, so that he could unite the family in such a short period of time, concentrate the power of the Liao State in his own hands, and finally successfully usurp the Liao State and change the Liao State to the Chen State.

After the establishment of the Chen State, Chen Ba first declared himself a vassal to the Northern Han Dynasty, and justifiably obtained the canonization of the King of Chen, and then instigated a good relationship with the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

I have to say that Chen Baxian is still very knowledgeable about current affairs, and in the face of the two giants of the Northern Han Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, his policy is that neither party will be offended, and finally hiding behind Gongsun Xuanyuan and gaining precious time to recuperate.

Chen Ba first accumulated strength in the back, and Gongsun Xuanyuan in front was uncomfortable.

Under the planning of Fuxi and Shennong, although the Liao army avoided several crises of annihilation, it also gave the Manchus a strong counterattack, causing a lot of casualties.

However, after all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a large amount of territory and population, which allowed the Qing army's losses to recover quickly, while the Liao army, which no longer had any territory, died one less and one less.

After noticing that the strength of the Liao army was getting weaker and weaker, the Manchu offensive became stronger and stronger, and the casualties of the Liao army were also increasing, and soon more than half of the casualties were already lost.

Obviously, the Liao army is about to reach the point of exhaustion of mountains and rivers, ammunition and food, and even food, grass and military supplies will be exhausted.

If there is no support, even if there are three great gods such as Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan, the Liao army will still not be able to avoid the end of the entire army.

When it was extremely critical, Huo Qubing of Daijun sent cavalry to detour through the grassland to send valuable supplies to the Liao army, and at the same time, Chen Baxian of Chen State also gave Gongsun Xuanyuan certain support.

Unlike Huo Quzhi's simple kindness, Chen Baxian completely wanted to use the Liao army.

Once the Liao army was destroyed, the state of Chen would be directly bordered by the Manchus, and the current state of Chen would obviously be difficult to fight against the giant of the Manchus.

Therefore, Chen Baxian took the initiative to support the Liao army, he wanted to squeeze out the last bit of value of the Liao army, and let Gongsun Xuanyuan buy time for himself as much as possible.

Although Gongsun understood Chen Baxian's sinister intentions, he had to accept the support of Chen Guo, and continued to fight against the Qing army with the assistance of Chen and Qin.

Qin's support allowed the Liao army to have sufficient supplies, while Chen's support allowed the Liao army to avoid running out of food.

On the surface, the situation of the Liao army seems to be better, but in fact it has not reversed.

Even with the assistance of Qin and Chen, the Liao army has no supply of troops after all, and if one soldier dies, there will be one less, so how long can it hold out?

At first, Gongsun Xuanyuan had 30,000 elites in his hands, but half of them were killed and wounded while fighting, and now there are only more than 10,000 left, and nearly two-thirds of them have died on the battlefield.

Although Gongsun Xuanyuan was betrayed by the family and his siblings, his reputation among the people was still very good, and after learning of the plight of the Liao army on the front line, many people in Chen State spontaneously came to join the army.

Previously, due to the lack of food and grass, it was not of much use to add recruits, so Gongsun Xuanyuan did not dare to accept these people into the army.

But as the casualties of the troops became larger and larger, there was no source of troops to replenish, and these people who took the initiative to join the army became the only source of soldiers for the Liao army, in addition to Gongsun Xuanyuan would also send people to the surrounding villages and towns to recruit troops.

"Lord, the people we sent to more than 20 villages and towns such as Li Village and Wang Village to recruit soldiers, not only did they not recruit a single recruit back this time, but they were also detained a lot by Chen Baxian's people."

Gongsun Yu's eyes were full of anger, and he said: "Although Chen Baxian did not give a clear order, he hinted that his subordinates would prevent our army from recruiting troops, and also set up checkpoints to intercept those people who took the initiative to join the army, which is really too much. ”

"Humph......"

Gongsun Xuanyuan's eyes were full of anger, and he angrily hammered the table, directly hammering the table.

Gongsun Xuanyuan didn't take Chen Baxian in his eyes, in his opinion, Chen Baxian was just this Wang Mang's pawn, but he didn't get to this pawn first, and his methods were so clever, far more difficult to deal with than Gongsun Shu, and now he has become a thorn in his throat.

Gongsun Xuanyuan turned his head to look at Li Hongzhang and asked coldly: "Mr. Li, a month before the Battle of Beihai, you said that the Qin army reinforcements were coming soon, but now that the Qin army has occupied Jizhou and Qingbei, my father still hasn't seen a single Qin soldier.

Are you playing a trick on your father? ”

Gongsun Xuanyuan's momentum was too strong, even if Li Hongzhang knew that he would not kill himself, he was just simply venting his anger, but he was still drenched in cold sweat by this momentum.

Li Hongzhang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said with a wry smile: "Duke Liao, you also agree with the battle plan formulated before, how can there be unforeseen circumstances."

Emperor Yuan Tuo Lei died unexpectedly, the internal situation of Yuan and Mongolia was treacherous, Mao Dun wanted to lead the army south to divert his attention, and the war in the state was about to break out.

It is precisely because of this that General Huo Qubing of Daijun had to put the plan on hold in order to cooperate with Wang Meng's assassination of Shi and prevent the Yuanmeng army from suddenly attacking and annexing the state.

You can't blame this, right? ”

In fact, as early as before the Battle of Qingbei, Huo Quzhi, who had touched a nail in Wei Qing, realized that Wei Qing was not easy to deal with, Huo Qubing summoned all the civil and military forces under his command to discuss the battle plan.

After several days of deliberation, Huo Quai, with the help of one person, finally formulated the entire plan of the Youzhou strategy, and the person who proposed this plan was Gongsun Xuanyuan's brother, Wei Ying (Shang Ying).