Chapter 1358: Tang is in a quagmire and Sui Deli

Long before Qin Hao won the Battle of Hetao, the battle in Yizhou was over, and Chi You's third expedition to Yizhou ended in a big defeat.

Under the joint efforts of Liu Ji and Liu Yu, although Chiyou had an advantage in the early stage of the war, it became more and more difficult in the later stage, until he was overwhelmed by the Second Liu Coalition Army.

At this point in the war, the Southern Barbarian Army was only at a disadvantage, and there was no sign of defeat, of course, if this trend could not be reversed, the defeat of the Southern Barbarian Army would only be a matter of time, but the arrival of a person accelerated the defeat of the Southern Barbarian Army, and he was deviating from Yang Guang's Houyi.

After Hou Yi broke away from Yang Guang, he entered Shu alone and came to seek refuge with Liu Ji, the king of Shu.

For Hou Yi's initiative to take refuge, Liu Ji's heart was happy and hesitant, happy that he was about to gain a top general, and the hesitation was because Hou Yi shot Liu Yu, and his reputation was completely stinky, and accepting Hou Yi's words might even affect Liu Ji's reputation.

Since the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Han Dynasty has been in constant turmoil, but if you want to talk about the danger of destroying the country and extinction, there are only two in total.

The second time, it was Temujin who marched south to the Hetao, and the two princes of Qin and Jin were responsible for fighting against it.

If Qin Hao loses this battle, the Yuanmeng alien race will definitely enter the Central Plains.

Therefore, in the war, the major princes ceased fighting one after another, and the precaution was that if Qin Hao was defeated, someone would be able to stand up in time to block the alien race.

Of course, Qin Hao won, which can be said to have made a contribution to saving the world, and his reputation has reached a peak.

As for the first time, it was after the Han princes forced the Ming Dynasty into the Three Mountains, and the Xianbei army invaded Youzhou.

In that battle, Liu Yu formed a coalition of Hebei princes, concentrating the strength of the entire Hebei to resist Xianbei's invasion, and Han Xin set up an ambush to shoot Xianbei Shan became famous in the first battle, but the Han court wanted to hand over Han Xin to please Xianbei to stop the war, while Liu Yu tried to protect Han Xin and eventually caused a rebellion to abolish the emperor.

Liu Yu repelled the invasion of Xianbei, who was killed in battle and fell into infighting, and was eventually annexed by the Manchus and Yuanmeng.

Liu Yu, like Qin Hao, has also made contributions to saving the world, and he is a well-deserved hero.

But such a great hero and hero, who is admired by the world, was killed by Hou Yi with an arrow in the process of the alliance to fight for Dong, and it is conceivable how many people in the world hate and scold Hou Yi.

Hou Yi's reputation is too stinky, and once anyone takes Hou Yi in, he will also bear part of the infamy of shooting Liu Yu.

Therefore, in all fairness, Liu Ji didn't want to take Hou Yi in, but Xingtian, Kuafu and other generals persuaded Liu Ji to take Hou Yi in.

As Liu Hong's Tuogu general, Hou Yi and Xingtian Kua's father are as close as brothers, seeing that the good brother has now fallen to this, Xingtian and Kua's father feel uncomfortable, so it is naturally impossible to ignore Hou Yi.

Although Liu Ji didn't want to take in Hou Yi, he had to consider the feelings of Xing Tian and Kua's father, after all, the two of them were the first and second fierce generals under him, so in the end, Liu Ji still took in Hou Yi.

Hou Yi also knew how bad his reputation was, and he also knew that except for Liu Ji and Yang Guang, there was no place for himself in the world, and he was very grateful to Liu Ji for taking him in, so after joining Liu Ji's command, he naturally worked very hard, and in the first battle, he used a sun-shooting arrow to hit the Southern Barbarian King Chiyou.

That's right, Hou Yi used the seventh sun-shooting arrow, and only two of the nine sun-shooting arrows remained, and although he failed to shoot Chi You with one arrow, he also hit it hard, which can be described as a great achievement, and directly reversed the situation of the whole war.

Chi You is the spiritual pillar of the Southern Barbarian Army, he was injured, the Southern Barbarian Army immediately became chaotic, morale dropped, and after the loss of Chi You, there was only one co-worker left in the Southern Barbarian Army, and he was powerless to resist Xingtian and Kuafu.

Liu Ji and Liu Yu took advantage of this opportunity to lead a large army to storm the Nanban camp, the Nanban army was defeated and retreated, and the two Liu coalition troops pursued the victory and defeated the Nanban invasion army.

Although the Southern Barbarian Army was defeated, and nearly half of the 200,000 troops were lost, they still had 100,000 troops and had the strength to fight a battle.

At the critical juncture, Chi You reversed the situation with injuries, and decisively gave up all the soil obtained from the three expeditions to Yizhou, and finally led 80,000 defeated troops back to Nanzhong.

The 20th National Army swore to the Northern Expedition, and only 80,000 defeated troops returned.

Chi You wanted to use the land of southern Sichuan to drag Er Liu's pursuers, he knew that as long as he gave up the territory he had taken, Er Liu would definitely fight for southern Sichuan, and he would take advantage of this opportunity to recuperate in order to fight again.

As Chi You expected, after the Southern Barbarian army retreated, Er Liu really fought because of the uneven distribution of interests, and Liu Ji and Liu Yu both wanted the territory that Chi You gave up.

From Chiyou's third expedition to Yizhou, to Erliu's formation of a coalition to contend with him, to Chiyou's defeat and retreat from Erliu's infighting, the rapid changes in the situation in Yizhou are simply dazzling.

Although Liu Yu is a generation of masters, what he took over from Liu Yan is also a mess, although he tried his best to fill the loopholes of this broken ship, but how could he beat Liu Ji's newly built ship.

The dispute between Liu Ji and Liu Yuer Liu ended in Liu Ji's victory, and the land of several counties in southern Sichuan was also occupied by Liu Ji.

So far, Yizhou is a three-legged trend;

Liu Ji occupies the eastern and southern Sichuan counties, and is the strongest;

Liu Yu occupies the counties of central Sichuan and western Sichuan, and has the strongest heritage;

Li Shimin occupies a county in Hanzhong County in northern Sichuan, and his strength and background are the weakest.

Liu Ji, who owns eastern and southern Sichuan, can be said to have greatly increased his strength, and his ambitions have further expanded, wanting to annex Liu Yu directly.

The defeat in the battle for southern Sichuan also made Liu Yu realize that he could not fight against Liu Ji alone, and if he wanted to keep this hard-won foundation, he had to bring in foreign aid.

As a last resort, Liu Yu decided to lead Li Shimin into Shu, he also knew that cooperating with Li Shimin was tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, and it would not be so easy for Li Shimin to come in, but Liu Yu knew that if he did not introduce a third force, he would be annexed by Liu Ji sooner or later, so he had to lead Li Shimin into Shu.

On the frontal battlefield, Liu Yu was defeated and retreated by Liu Ji, and it was not until Li Tang's 50,000 troops into Shu arrived, especially the arrival of Yang Jian, that Liu Yu's situation improved.

The three battles between Yang Jian and Xingtian shocked the world even more, and these three battles ended in a draw!

The complexity of the situation in Yizhou and the arrogance of the generals of the Shu army far exceeded the expectations of Li Shimin and his advisers.

Li Shibenmin wanted to take advantage of the melee between the two Liu to make a profit, but he didn't know that he also fell into Liu Yu's calculations, so that the entire Tang army fell into the quagmire of Yizhou.

Liu Ji's strength forced Li Shimin to increase his troops, so that when the melee of the three princes of Liangzhou began, the Tang army could not withdraw its troops because it was too deep in Yizhou, and could only seize a small piece of territory from Liangzhou with weak troops, and finally let Yang Guang, a sworn enemy, swallow most of Liangzhou's territory.