Chapter 236: Pacifying the Central Plains (For Book Friend Xu Feng)
"I'm back." Wang Xiao yawned and greeted Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu, who was dressed in a gorgeous princess costume, looked at him suspiciously, "What's wrong with you, you seem to be very tired." ”
Since learning that Wang Xiao was going to marry Princess Nanliang, Yuan Chun began to make trouble.
The kind of trouble that can't be persuaded can't be persuaded by anyone, and it's useless for anyone to say.
Even if Wang Xiao said that the two of you are not separated from each other, it is not okay if you are both identities. is to accuse Wang Xiao of changing his mind, and there is a trend of blackening when he sees it.
Facing Yuan Chun, who couldn't listen to persuasion at all, Wang Xiao was also anxious.
He used the most simple and crude means, and he persuaded hard night and night.
In this way, he will not get tired.
"I'm all for you." Wang Xiao looked at Xiao Yu meaningfully.
The eldest princess smiled generously, "I am all yours, so you are still for yourself." ”
The two have been entangled for several years, and they have already understood each other well.
Together, they rode horses across the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. Lettering in Tianchi, enjoying the snow in the green ridge. Eat grapes in Turpan and look for jade in Hotan.
For Xiao Yu, this was the best time of her life.
In order to be able to be with Wang Xiao, she even planned to give up her noble identity before.
As for what Wang Xiao wanted, she had already given him everything.
"I've already said it over there, you guys will get along well in the future. Okay? ”
Xiao Yu covered her mouth and chuckled, "Don't worry, I won't embarrass you." ”
As the former leader of an espionage organization, Xiao Yu's ability is beyond doubt.
Princess Yuanchun before she was blackened, in the final analysis, she was just a lively and jumpy little girl who didn't understand the world.
Xiao Yu wanted to appease her, but it couldn't be easier.
"That's good."
Wang Xiao nodded with satisfaction, leaned over and whispered in the woman's ear, "When the matter is done, I will reward you well." ”
Xiao Yu raised his hand and stroked his lower abdomen, "I want a child." ”
Xiao Yu, who has let go of the burden of identity, now just wants to be a happy little woman. Children, on the other hand, are essential.
Wang Xiao still has concerns about this.
It's nothing to have an office romance at work, but it's a big deal to get killed.
He hadn't thought about staying in this world for decades.
"I'll talk about this after I'm done fighting."
In the following days, Wang Xiao stayed in Xiliang to recuperate. Train soldiers, reserve supplies, and conduct non-stop espionage warfare.
even took Yuan Chun and Xiao Yu to the distant Western Regions. Enjoy the magnificent mountains and rivers there.
Accompany the beauty to travel around the Western Regions, when you relax Yuwentai and Gao Huan's attention. Wang Xiao's secret arrangement has never stopped.
When the next year is autumn, the wheat fields are full of golden wheat waves. Wang Xiao finally returned to Liangzhou.
This time, Wang Xiao, who had been carefully preparing for a long time, wanted to defeat Gao Huan and Yuwentai together in one go.
Before sending troops, Yu Wenhuai, who had been detained for a long time, was dragged out. Princess Yuanchun took revenge and slaughtered him to sacrifice the flag.
The elite cavalry group of more than 50,000 drove a larger number of grassland zahu and cannon fodder from various countries in the Western Regions out of Liangzhou, detouring the grassland towards the clouds.
At this time, Gao Huan in the south had already fought with Yuwentai, and he was still eagerly waiting for Wang Xiao to send troops to attack Yuwentai with him.
Wang Xiao did send troops, but it was Gao Huan.
Yunzhong County, a city of heroes who resisted the Xiongnu army in the Han Dynasty.
Wei Qing and Huo Qubing have sent troops from here many times, went north to the grassland to defeat the Huns, and made immortal military achievements.
However, at this time, Yunzhong County has become a world of grassland miscellaneous beards.
Wang Xiao came to Yunzhong County in the name of supporting Gao Huan, and the local city guard stupidly welcomed Wang Xiao into the city. And so it was a matter of course.
After taking Yunzhong County, Wang Xiao did not hesitate to distribute the confiscated fields, real estate, goods and grain to the Han children who were slaves before.
This trick allowed him to gain the hearts of those men who had nothing to lose in the shortest possible time.
Thousands of local Han were organized and drove a large number of captives all the way south to Jinyang.
Jinyang is Gao Huan's real lair.
He has been operating here for many years, and the city is impregnable, and he has stored countless kinds of material wealth and grain.
Under normal circumstances, if you want to conquer here, even if Yuwentai gathers the entire Great Wei's soldiers and horses, you can't take it.
But the problem is that at this time, most of the elite defenders of Jinyang have been taken to Bishan by Gao Huan, and they are still in a bloody battle with Yuwentai at the moment.
There are only a few thousand soldiers and horses left behind in Jinyang.
The siege of Jinyang began on the third day of the arrival of the army.
At this time, Wang Xiao, who pulled out a long queue, only the striker arrived at the foot of Jinyang City. The soldiers and horses behind were not even long out of the clouds.
And in just two or three days, it is impossible to create any decent siege equipment.
In an age where everything relies on hand, it is not easy to build a large number of complex siege machines.
Usually sieges are fought in months, or even years.
Wang Xiao did not wait for the soldiers and horses behind him slowly, nor did he build siege equipment with peace of mind. After building a long ladder to reach the head of the city, as well as a number of simple shield carts, he immediately launched an attack on Jinyang.
In this case, of course, it is impossible for Wang Xiao to mobilize the Han family soldiers and horses to fight. Carrying a long ladder and pushing a shield cart are all cannon fodder collected from the grassland and the countries of the Western Regions.
Although he will not be stingy with the lives of these people, if he really makes people risk their lives to fight, the necessary benefits must still be there.
So Wang Xiao made a condition.
He listed hundreds of large boxes in front of the formation. It was filled with layers of silver cakes.
As long as the cannon fodder can bring back a head of a Gao Huanjun regular soldier, they can get two silver cakes from these chests.
And if it is a strong man defending the city, the two heads can be exchanged for one.
At this time, although gold and silver were not circulated among the people, their value was known to everyone.
And Wang Xiao also said that as long as he gets the head of a Gao Huanjun regular soldier, he can get rid of the identity of cannon fodder and go home.
These conditions offered by Wang Xiao made the previously desperate cannon fodder excited.
The cannon fodder, who saw the hope of survival, burst out with unprecedented courage on the first day of the siege.
They carried long ladders and shouted and rushed to the city walls.
Even if most people don't have a chance to rush to the top of the city, even those who rush to the head of the city may not be able to get the head, and even if they really take off the head, there are many people who can't get down to the city alive. But there are too many cannon fodder.
The continuous arrival of follow-up troops has made the number of cannon fodder increase all the time.
As for anyone who saw the mountains of corpses piling up under the city walls, and thus had a mental breakdown and turned to escape, all of them were directly disposed of.
Under the city of Jinyang, tens of thousands of cannon fodder shed blood.
The almost uninterrupted storming of the city lasted for two days, and Jinyang City finally couldn't bear it and was broken into the city.
Although the thousands of defenders killed tens of thousands of cannon fodder, they also suffered casualties. After all, there are few of them, and in the face of the continuous rush to the city, they can't hold it for two days and two nights.
As for the strong men who were recruited to the city. The Han people have long heard from the caravans that Wang Xiao came and directly divided the fields, houses, and things. Not only did they not have any intention of defending the city, but they were thinking about how to dedicate it.
And a little miscellaneous beard is not a climate at all.
In the final analysis, it was because Wang Xiao's strategy of darkness was too successful.
Gao Huan never thought that Wang Xiao would let go of his great enemy Yuwentai, but first came to fight himself, an ally who fought Yuwentai to the end.
Although Jinyang City is well defended, there are too few defenders who may fight.
When the regular soldiers are dead and exhausted. A group of Han people in the city took advantage of the chaos to open a city gate that had not been affected for two days, and most of the defenders had been transferred.
The cavalry, who had been waiting for a long time, roared in, announcing the fall of the fortified city.
Wang Xiao paid a batch of silver cakes, and many cannon fodder were able to escape.
None of this is anything compared to the harvest.
The wealth that Gao Huan has accumulated for many years, especially the large number of weapons and armor in the arsenal, bows, arrows and crossbows, have all become his trophies.
It's still the same trick as before, leveling the gate valve family, and then distributing their land wealth to the local Han'er.
In two days, Wang Xiao pulled up a team of nearly 20,000 recruits.
Those Han'er serfs, who had nothing before, were willing to pick up knives and guns and follow Wang Xiao to fight hard in order to protect their property and their families.
Although they have not received any rigorous training, their courage to fight to the death is not weak at all.
Wang Xiao did not continue to go south, but entered the land of Hebei through Jingcheng.
In just over a month, Wang Xiao's army swept through the Hebei provinces.
Everywhere he went, he was the gate valve of the Ping family, arrested the miscellaneous beards as cannon fodder, and distributed the wealth of the fields to the local Han'er.
It's like a snowball, and there are more and more soldiers and horses under Wang Xiao's command.
By the time he set off towards Yecheng, there were more than 200,000 people with him.
And that's not even counting the cannon fodder.
It was only at this time that Gao Huan, who had fought with Yuwentai in Pishan, was bleeding like a river, and he could be regarded as freeing his hands to turn the direction and prepare to deal with Wang Xiao's aggressive offensive.
The news of Wang Xiao's siege of Jinyang had already reached Gao Huan's ears, but he was angry but he couldn't get out of his way to deal with it in a short time.
He has been inseparable from Yuwentai's killing for the past two months. At this time, once you turn around and retreat, and are chased and killed by Yuwentai, it is very likely that the whole army will collapse.
Gao Huan could only be in the camp, cursing Wang Xiao like a hungry wolf with red eyes.
As for the other soldiers and horses, the southern Liang had already made a change and launched an offensive in the Jianghuai area.
Gao Huan had no choice but to send the last mobile force over. Now that they are entangled by the girders, there is no way to withdraw the troops over there.
The person who finally broke the deadlock was Gao Huan's lifelong enemy Yu Wentai.
After Yuwentai learned the news, he took the initiative to send someone to contact Gao Huan. The two sides discussed withdrawing each other's troops, and neither of them would cause trouble for anyone.
The Great Wei army retreated to the Tiger Prison Pass, nervously watching the situation in the eastern part of the country.
Gao Huan hurriedly took his soldiers and horses north to cross the Yellow River, and galloped all the way to Yecheng to prepare for a decisive battle with Wang Xiao.
Gao Huan has already made up his mind.
After winning the war, Wang Xiao must be torn apart.
The head was sent to the North Sea and thrown to the bottom of the sea, and the limbs were sent to Wuyue to suppress. The torso was thrown directly into the Yellow River and swallowed.
Otherwise, it is not enough to relieve the hatred in his heart!