Chapter 753. Guan Yu went on a northern expedition
Wang Hou's troops have always been in a state of shortage.
The bad side of the feudal soldiers is reflected, because the Han Dynasty generally served in the military for more than three months and one hundred days, and Wang Hou did not want to easily break the rules to extend the service period, so the conscripted landlord cavalry and the 20,000 servants were disbanded by him after repelling Liu Bei at the end of last year, and returned to Guanxi to go home for the New Year, only keeping 3,000 conscripted cavalry and their servants on the front line.
Therefore, even in the battle of Dingjun Mountain, the Wei army won a complete victory, the strength of Wang Hou in Hanzhong was still at a disadvantage, and there were only more than 22,000 soldiers who could fight plus the disabled Yangping Pass defenders.
However, contrary to the Guandong Confucian family, the enthusiasm for martial arts in Guanxi was completely stimulated by him, after the battle of Hanzhong beheaded the military merits reported, the Yecheng court, the remaining prince Cao Pi was not difficult, such as a number of knights, the road to the knighthood aroused the already warlike old Qin people were even more fanatical, and the structure of the Guanlong military aristocracy of the Sui and Tang dynasties in later generations showed a little rudimentary form in Wang Hou's hands.
For the sake of military merit, in addition to the three thousand Guanzhong landlord knights who were recruited to serve, there were even some knights and children of broken families who brought their own grain and grass to equip horses, and took the initiative to go to Hanzhong to participate in the war.
It's a bit like the online game of later generations.,Volunteer cavalry from Luogu Road and Chen Cang Road.,After Yangping Pass, the Wei army camp took over the task.,And then was assigned to the patrol area of the mission site.,After brushing the monster.,Escort the captives to the Hanzhong camp to hand over the task to receive the bounty.,The greedy go back to the task and arrange the task.,The pragmatic one is to escort the captives back to Guanzhong.。
Captives are also one of the reasons that attract Guanzhong knights to take the initiative to participate in the war!
Wang Hou accepted the Qiang people into Han nationality, and agreed with the Guanzhong group lords to maintain the thirty taxes and one in the early Han Dynasty, especially in Chang'an, which was particularly harmful to the interests of the landed nobles in Guanzhong, which increased the labor cost of agricultural production! The value of people was raised, and in order to attract tenant farmers, the grandfather of the landlord, who was originally high-minded, even had to bend down and show a smiling face, like the factory owners in the south during the post-labor famine, giving cigarettes and bonuses to the tenants, and he could not play the prestige of the lord at all.
Captives, though, are different! The battle of Hanzhong, captured more than 20,000 Shu troops, but the lord of Guanzhong who participated in the war would rather not report military merits, but also to hide the prisoners, the Shu army prisoners can be transported back as tenant slaves, can also play the lord prestige, last year's Spring Festival, with more than 10,000 captives back to Guanzhong, a manor can be divided into more than a dozen tenant knights are simply happy with the New Year.
It is completely possible to squeeze the surplus labor force captured by the Shu army, and it can also play the prestige of the landlord's grandfather! The kind of capitalist greed that Wang Hou wanted was stirred up in Guanzhong, and in this case, Wang Hou had no choice but to let go of the red line of prisoners of war.
In the camp, groups of Shu army captives were driven away with their heads down, and the knights in Guanzhong who brought the captives back were elated and shouted loudly, the camp also had a bit of Renaissance atmosphere, and the shabby literati who relied on writing to make a living pinched their pens, on-site interviews, Sasha's record of the knights' battle situation, and the wind of bragging and beeping also followed, and it was too much to be written as a story and broadcast it in the Grand Theater of Chang'an.
Just like last night's battle, it was obviously a dozen or so Shu army short knife light infantry to look at the situation, a few hundred meters away from Daba Mountain, but they couldn't run and chose to surrender, and they were blown by a few guys as if they had fought three hundred rounds with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in person, and the white-bearded old man was also blown into Huang Zhong's brother Huang Gong, and several Shu army prisoners who listened to it were about to vomit.
However, the situation is very good, sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army, Wang Hou himself is still worried.
The situation in Hanzhong is not so much stabilized, but dragged into the quagmire of war like Bashu, this Yangping Pass Micang Mountain is pressed Liu Bei's heavy troops, he does not dare to retreat a step, and to the south, with 20,000 people in his hands, it is really a little weak.
If it is only to support one battlefield in Hanzhong, the problem is the burden thrown to him by Cao Cao, and the territory under his command is too narrow and long, and the shortcomings are exposed.
Liaodong is a small fight, and the Liaodong Trust Committee, which has become a climate, can deal with it, but something happened to the Naturalization City, and some of the more northern nomadic barbarians who claimed to be Rouran people went south from Siberia and actually began to invade the steppe of the Xianbei people, and the Xianbei people were weakened too much by Wang Hou, and in recent years, with the prosperity of industry and commerce, they were not the opponents of these more northern barbarians, and suffered a few defeats on the edge of Monan.
The other section of the Western Regions is a mistake made by Wang Hou himself! He used Wang Shuang as the protector of the Western Regions, Wang Shuang is indeed a fierce general, and he is loyal and straightforward, and the problem lies in his straightforward personality.
Although the Western Regions are not as complex and colorful as the thirty-six countries in the era of Bowang Hou Zhang Qian, there are also dozens of ethnic political forces in more than a dozen countries.
But usually, Ban Chao's handling of things is dozing off, as long as you don't move the Western Regions Protectorate, don't provoke the trade routes of the Han Dynasty, what small country is under the Metropolitan Protectorate, and how the chiefs of the small tribes call around, he doesn't care! As long as there is no such thing as a strong man who suddenly rises like the Houjin and may threaten the dominance of the Han Empire, you can fight it, it doesn't matter if the human brain is beaten into a dog's brain, anyway, it is the Han who will benefit in the end.
But Wang Shuang belongs to the kind of person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes! After the 5,000 garrisons arrived in Luntai, he had fought more than 30 small battles in the past two years, and even the Cheshi Qianguo, Xiaowan, Pishan and other countries that welcomed the return of the Han army had a slight resignation.
In this case, it is already foreseeable that there will be a great border chaos in the Western Regions in the near future.
But the problem is that the main energy is all involved in Hanzhong, and Wang Hou really does not have the strength to invest in the development of the Western Regions.
Seeing a notice sent by the Naturalization City in the Western Regions, Wang Houzhen smelled a little dangerous, but it was difficult for a clever woman to feel embarrassed by the lack of rice.
Flipping through the pages one by one, and then throwing the piles of official documents aside and creaking, seeing that when he flipped through to the next one, Wang Hou's eyes suddenly couldn't help but straighten.
It was actually sent by Cao Ren!
Cao Ren is now staying in Jingzhou, guarding Cao Wei's last two bases in Jingzhou, located in Xiangyang City, which is now north of the Yangtze River.
This old turkey sent a letter to remind Wang Hou, who was also at war with Liu Bei, that the Jingzhou thieves collected ships and would go north in the near future, reminding Wang Hou that maybe Liu Bei would launch a second wave of attacks!
Seeing this news, Wang Hou was stunned for a few seconds, and then slapped his thigh tragically.
"Forget about this stubble!"