Chapter 21: Liu Chong Goes South

At the same time that Guo Wei quelled Murong Yanchao's rebellion, and Wu Yue, who had been founded more than 50 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, was destroyed by the Great Chu in the south, and after each of them eliminated his own henchmen, the Huai River border, which had been constantly rubbing, was unusually calm. [No pop-ups. It's just that there are still a lot of horse thieves in Xuzhou and Suzhou, and pirates in Qingzhou and Dengzhou are also constantly harassing the maritime frontiers of the Great Zhou.

The two opponents tacitly agreed to take corresponding measures to strengthen their defenses. Cao Bin was in Xuzhou, using the rivers such as Bianshui and Surabaya and the Grand Canal to open canals in Xuzhou and Suzhou to store water, making Xuzhou like a paddy field in the south of the Yangtze River, and reducing the mobility of horse thieves and gradually compressing the range of activities of horse thieves by opening channels to the channels; And Guo Wei is even more desperate, due to the limited strength of the puppet Zhou's sailors, in the first wave of pirates' blows, the sailors in Dengzhou and other places were basically wiped out, but the puppet Zhou's maritime frontier has a one-sided situation, forced to helplessly, Guo Wei listened to Li Gu's suggestion, except for a few heavily guarded salt farms, the people in the rest of the place, all emigrate to the inland for 20 miles, vacating an area similar to the "isolation zone", is the pirates' "grab and go" strategy is also a bit unworkable, but, in this way, for the puppet Zhou, It is equivalent to automatically abandoning the sea, coupled with the mutual blockade of the border between the pseudo-Zhou and Dachu, and the goods of the north and the south are not circulating, which has a certain impact on the finances of both sides.

Time flies quickly, and it is the end of the year in a blink of an eye, and after more than half a year of preparation, Liu Chong, the Shenwu Emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, finally pretended to be brave and began to go south to find Guo Wei for revenge. In November of the first year of Taihe, Liu Chong did not send people to quietly go south to inform Dachu to attack Guo Wei from the north and south, nor did he notify his Uncle Yelu to send troops to respond. The elite of his own bullish Dafa territory, led by his second son Liu Chengjun to the south, first attacked Jinzhou and Linfen, Shanxi.

The puppet Zhou has more than 100 states under its jurisdiction, and there are no less than 300,000 elite troops, while the Northern Han Dynasty has only 12 states, and the army is only 30,000 or 40,000 horses, why did Liu Chong dare to act alone? There are no more than two reasons, first, Hedong is a useless place for heroes, Li Keyong and Li Cunxuan were the ones who were played to death by Youling, that is, they relied on Hedong to fight against Zhu Liang for more than ten years, and finally established Zhu Liang, and later Shi Jingjiao and Liu Zhiyuan all relied on Hedong to seize the world, so the people of Hedong are belligerent and talented, so Liu Chong does not feel that he must not be Guo Wei's opponent.

Second, Liu Chong and Guo Wei have a grudge of "killing the country and killing their son", and he can't bear this breath anymore. At the beginning, his son Wu Ningjun was still in Guo Wei's hands, so Liu Chong had to say good things to Guo Wei, in exchange for becoming a dynasty, the monarchs would not pay too much attention to the son who was caught in the enemy's hands, but the old Liu family was not good, the old Liu family was already thin, and now there is only Liu Chongye left alive, Liu Chong is naturally reluctant to bury his eldest son, but now that he has learned that his son died of depression at a young age, Liu Chong did not take care of it, and he was not happy to take revenge. Although he recognized Uncle Yelu, this uncle did not see rabbits and eagles, and under the pretext of being poor in his country, he had to ask Liu Chong to pay a tribute of 100,000 yuan a year before the Khitan would send troops south. How big is Hedong? 100,000 yuan, this is not asking for Liu Chong's old life, relying on himself to be a soldier and enough food, Liu Chong did not agree. And the Great Chu in the south opened his mouth and closed his mouth to avenge the Great Han, but Liu Chong is not stupid, compared with the Chu State, his own strength is worse after all, if he is caught between the north and the south of the Chu State, the Chu State is strong and he is weak, then if he really defeats Guo Wei, wouldn't it be cheaper to be taken up by the Chu State?

Based on these two considerations, Liu Chong sent troops south desperately. Liu Chengjun's army arrived in Jinzhou and met Wang Yan, the envoy of the Jianxiong army of the puppet Zhou Dynasty, Wang Yan is Guo Wei's old subordinate, and he has been on the battlefield for a long time, which is the kind of fool who runs away when he sees the enemy. He also knew that Liu Chong was not a good comer, so he simply closed the city gate and held on without fighting, and on the other hand, he sent people to Beijing to ask for help.

At this time, Guo Wei has been on the throne for less than a year, although the country is coarse, but there are too many people with two hearts in this year, although he made an example of the monkey and won Murong Yanchao, but the battle for Xuzhou with the Chu State was lost. In the face of the menacing Liu Chong, Guo Wei had only one way to go, that is, to send someone to defeat Liu Chong to further consolidate his position. So, on the one hand, he issued an edict to reprimand Liu Chong, and on the other hand, he worshiped his old brother Wang Jun to deploy the camp in the north, and was fully responsible for fighting back against Liu Chong's invasion.

Wang Jun is also a famous minister during the Han and Zhou dynasties, after Yelu Deguang entered Bianjing, Liu Zhiyuan sent Wang Jun as a messenger to Bianjing to spy on the news, when he was in Bianjing, Wang Jun was honest, and showed loyalty and filial piety for Liu Zhiyuan in front of Yelu Deguang; But as soon as he returned to Taiyuan Mansion, this guy immediately told Liu Zhiyuan what he had seen and heard, and asserted that don't look at the Khitan making fun, he would have to pull Qingdan in less than two months, and strongly persuaded Liu Zhiyuan to judge the situation and ascend the throne as the emperor. This person has a very good relationship with Guo Wei, when the Bianjing Incident occurred, Wang Jun's family also followed Guo Wei's family to be unlucky, in a series of activities in which Guo Wei became the emperor, Wang Jun also contributed a lot, and it seems that he should be regarded as a responsible and knowledgeable person.

It's a pity, I don't know if it's because the official position is bigger, and the courage is smaller. Wang Jun led the army of northern rescue to Sanmenxia, now Henan, Shaanzhou, in the face of Jinzhou's continuous urgency, Wang Jun laid a soft egg, he didn't leave, and stopped the army in Shaanzhou for five or six days.

Even if Wang Yan has some ability, in the face of the crazy attack of the Han army, although Jinzhou suffered heavy casualties, Jinzhou can barely survive. It's just that this urgent article is getting worse and worse the more it is written, and the frequency is getting faster and faster. Seeing that his old brother stopped in Shaanzhou, he didn't dare to leave. Guo Wei of the Jinluan Palace couldn't sit still, he was ready to drive the expedition in person, in Guo Wei's opinion, this can not be ambiguous, once Liu Chong takes Jinzhou and goes straight to Luzhou, it will threaten the safety of Dao Bianjing. He couldn't sit still.

Wang Jun heard that Guo Wei was going to go to the expedition in person, which undoubtedly showed that Guo Wei was not satisfied with his stay in Shaanzhou, so Wang Jun hurriedly showed his loyalty to Guo Wei: Your Majesty must not leave the Beijing Division, otherwise Ma Yun of Jiangbiao may take advantage of the situation, and if the Beijing Division is lost, Your Majesty will go to a major event.

Guo Wei pondered carefully, it was really like this, although the Chu State had been fighting for many years and the troops were exhausted, but if he left Bianjing and was contained in Jinzhou by Liu Chong, maybe this Chu State would go north, after all, he had just become the emperor, and his prestige had not yet been established. So, Guo Wei had no choice but to stay in Bianliang, sit in Beijing, and the local Jiedu envoys did not dare to make any changes, and at the same time issued an edict urging Wang Jun: You can't be in Shaanzhou anymore, hurry up and go to Jinzhou to do business.

Wang Jun knew that Lai couldn't go, it was a mule or a horse, and he always had to pull it out and slip away, and the ugly daughter-in-law would have to see her in-laws sooner or later, so he had to go to Jinju hard. Unexpectedly, Wang Jun's luck was good, when he left, it snowed heavily in the area of Jinzhou, and the people ran away, and the Han army could not grab food for a while, and there was a shortage of food in the army, and when Wang Jun arrived in Jinzhou, the Han army had already begun to retreat. Wang Jun hesitated for a long time before sending Ma Jundu to command Qiu Hongchao and others to chase and kill Liu Chong, and chased him until Huoyi is now Huo County, Shanxi. suffered a big defeat, Liu Chongcai really understood Guo Wei's power, and hurriedly gave 100,000 yuan of money to the Khitan goduncle, so that the godfather always had the idea to help him.

Murong Yanchao was destroyed, Liu Chong was defeated, Chu was tired, Guo Wei's mood gradually settled down, Guo Rong was in Yongxing, and he wanted to take advantage of the stability of the four places to quickly reform the internal affairs and rectify the army. Guo Rong's twists and turns, there are a total of five: filling Guanzhong, strengthening the cadres and weak branches, raising the people with thin taxes, garrisoning Lingwu, and capturing Longyou.